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...Speaker Byrns prepared to call for a voice vote, a stocky, red-faced, small-chinned, little figure popped out of the cloakroom, began shouting: "Mr. Speaker! Mr. Speaker!" It was Ohio's Representative Martin Leo Sweeney, oldtime Cleveland politician, apostle of Father Coughlin and Dr. Townsend who, as national president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, made 1,000 anti-British speeches before going to Congress...
...Speaker! Mr. Speaker!" bawled Representative Sweeney, his wisp of white hair bobbing...
...cried Representative Sweeney. "Mr. Speaker! Mr. Speaker...
...some importance; in fact, it is of capital importance in any consideration of Eliot. By calling most of Eliot's poetry 'dramatic' Mr. Matthiessen means that Eliot seldom speaks in his own person, even in poems which may seem to be lyrica. Thus Eliot is not Tiresias or Apeneck Sweeney or Mr. Prufrock, and the peculiar spiritual attributes of each are not necessarily Eliot's. The poems in which the persons cited appear are often called to witness by sociological critics of the Marxist persuasion as evidences of Eliot's state of mind under capitalism. Eliot's figures are characters...
...already been demonstrated on the screen (Little Miss Marker, Lady for a Day), the more involved a Runyon character is written, the harder it is to act. Actor Harrington seems to interpret Marco not so much as a droll picaroon but as a bumbling slob. But as Mike, Actor Sweeney is a soft-spoken Runyon killer of the first order. If A Slight Case of Murder outlasts Three Men on a Horse, its aging kinsman in the theatre next door, it will be due largely to Mr. Sweeney...