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...shuttered, musty, little shop stood on the edge of the canal, next to the sumptuous guild of the moneylenders. On its lintel was the cryptic legend, "speak of nothing but business, and speak quickly. To the merchant-princes of the guild, who saw it in passing, it might have seemed like the humble bootleg of a cobbler. Not the most fortunate of them would know that within it countries of the mind were being discovered, vaster than the lands toward which another Italian was sailing in the same year. Entering, he would have found the flower of Venetian scholarship gathered...
Today, with a perspicacity which will be surprising only to those unacquainted with Senator Long, he stands forth even more as a great American Nestor. Reposing in a sumptuous room in the new and brilliant Waldorf-Astoria, Senator Long pointed out that "the trouble with Washington is its remoteness from civilization--I never saw a place in my life that was so far away from the American people". But Huey Lond is no mere doctrinaire; he can treat the most practical problems with resource and agility. The case of the Waldorf sandwich is a case in point. With...
...tragic, but to the outsider, it will appear salutary. Money has been flowing to the colleges too freely. Much of it has been spent on building, which has added greatly to overhead costs without a proportional return in educational values. Notoriously, the universities have gone in for sumptuous building, and particularly for sumptuous accomodations for students. A fairish college dormitory today offers at least as much in the way of personal comforts and luxuries as can be found at a good club...
...that things had been just soso. In the Times Olin Downes wrote heavy, rhapsodic sentences about a great triumph: "For once the music of Handel was properly enunciated. It had the lordly sweep, the songfulness, the strength which inhere in Handel's glorious art, and it was clothed in sumptuous tone that rang and chanted through the auditorium...
Reprints. Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, his best-known story, is issued by Random House ($15). Printed in a sumptuous small folio on hand-made paper by San Francisco's Grabhorn Press, the book has silhouette decorations by Valenti Angelo...