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...consciousness of political power charged the proceedings with electric confidence. Under the watchful presidency of ex-miner Ebby Edwards, delegates barged through their business like a bulldozer through the brush. For the pressing problems currently besetting the Government there was tolerance and understanding. Even on the T.U.C.'s tenderest sore point-the Government's dilatory demobilization plan-delegates pulled their punches. This was their Government: it must get every chance...
James Cagney, who in his time had to plant fists or a grapefruit on young ladies' faces and shoes on young ladies' behinds, here develops his tenderest relationships with middle-aged ladies (the Misses George, Main and Hattie McDaniel), and each of them is worth a dozen average love scenes. Edward McNamara (an easygoing friend of the Cagneys whose fine, fresh tenor Caruso once coached and whom Madame Schumann-Heink once "discovered" as a caroling Jersey cop) is something new and convincing in villainy. He looks like neither a swindling person or the unconfessed byblow of a neanderthal...
...Tenderest whale steaks come from young California grey whales ; old whales are tough. But the U.S. is barred by international treaty from catching grey whales...
...Miss Field's book has enough carpentry to chair an idle haunch through many hours, enough sincere sentimentality to bring moisture to idle eyes and unguentine to idle hearts. In recognition of changed times, it is tinged with "class-consciousness," but not of a sort to disturb the tenderest digestion...
...Gehrig, when he came to die, was given miles of white paper covered with the tenderest tributes for his obituary, principally because he was a decent man. ... Is character then so rare that a good man merits such tributes merely because he has been good? Well, what would...