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...inner stature. To strangers he may appear a beaten man but his friends marvel at his fortitude and lack of bitterness. Thin-skinned, he has learned to shrug off criticism with a philosophy described as "almost oriental in its calm." No longer do his fingers drum a nervous tattoo on his chair arm or his eyes rove the floor. He talks in a low, steady, less querulous voice. His words are weighted with patient resignation...
...left groin where he was to cut, gave himself a local anesthetic, proceeded to operate. He chatted and joked with the nurses as he cut, sponged and sutured for 1 hr. 45 min. By that time he was drowsy, let Dr. Cleveland make the final two or three stitches, tattoo the dots which mean Kane fecit...
...observers saw President Hoover turning over a new and bolder political leaf, adopting Rooseveltian tactics to combat congressional vagaries. Others pictured him as a nervous, sensitive man who had been swamped by his own anger at the loss of support. Certain it was that his fingers played a new tattoo of worry on the arms of his chair, that his nerves were stretched by the failure of the country to rally sooner from its slump, by Republican reverses in the election, by the natural can't ankerousness of the Senate...
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...another quality than charm. This bleak little story about a criminal who fell in love with the abused wife of the prison warden could have been made credible only by thoughtful, undecorative realism. Best shot: Louis Wolheim, the toughest man on Devil's Island, exposing a ring of tattoo-marks around his neck, with the legend: "Cut on the dotted line...