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...does not mean that its inhabitants are not interested in men. The Barbizon hotel for women is considered a good, respectable address for out-of-town girls who have come to make a name for themselves in New York. In the small green lobby, through which moves a constant stream of eager young women carrying an air of determination, one aspiring young actress from Providence, R.I. said: "The men in New York are all the same. They're out for what they can get. I have a boy friend from home who comes to see me about every three...
What caused the warming-up Dr. Kimble does not know. He thinks it may be related to some change in the Gulf Stream or in the warm air masses that originate in the Gulf of Mexico region. Neither does he know whether the warming will continue. It may be part of a cycle, he says, "but you can work up a cycle for anything...
...after this invective, Tregaskis describes his own paradise--peaceful, beautiful California. And here he admits that paradise is merely that spot of green so far from the fast stream of life that the gurgle never reaches his ears...
...matters as transition and selection of detail. However, he has taken such pains to avoid breaking the mood that there is no change of pace whatever. Chace might have given the story more motion by a dynamic use of dialogue, instead of burying the spoken conversation in description and stream of consciousness. The phrasing is near-perfect. There is hardly a bad sentence in the piece, except, perhaps, the first one ("In the spring of that year time hung over the city in a grey fog"), which is pretentious enough to keep some readers from looking further...
Around the U.S., other stores were plugging foreign goods as hard as Macy's. Into Boston Harbor last week steamed the British cruiser Superb and the frigate Snipe. Over the side came a stream of sailors, who, as bands played, marched straight for Boston's Jordan Marsh Co. department store to open up its "Salute to Britain." On display were $750,000 worth of British imports. Dallas' A. Harris & Co. ended its exhibition of more than 5,000 imports from 26 countries, while Los Angeles' J. W. Robinson Co. got ready to put on a similar...