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Stern and ominous though the situation seemed, Dowager Queen Marie was not without words of cheer: "Hasn't Rumania a small, bright star on her horizon?-Our little King Mihai, our tender but lovely hope. He is our symbol, and just because we are a young country and because of our struggles and griefs, what sweeter symbol could we have than a little innocent child, around whom one and all, great and small, rich and poor, unite to guide and help and protect-little Mihai, our King...
Even cynics sympathized with Peasant Juliu Maniu as he left the Royal Palace. More than a "tender but lovely hope" is needed to keep his Cabinet afloat with a temporarily unbalancable budget. That could be done by former Prime Minister Vintila Bratiano because he had behind him the great fiscal tycoons of Rumania. The new peasant Cabinet must not only worry through without such assistance, but must wage next month a national Parliamentary campaign. Even best wishers of Prime Minister Maniu were forced to admit, last week, that his little Ship of State is tossed on perilous seas...
...Brown's Body yet? Crictics, call it has greatest American poem--but its as fascinating as a novel and just as easy to read. Nearly a hundred thousand people have discovered that here at last is a poem more thrilling than fiction--a poem of glamorous history, inspiring biography, tender, gallant romance...
...this Montemezzi has said with music. He stumps the old King on-stage with troubled horns. He sways the lovers with his strings. He tells the anguish of Flora's soul with a single overblown clarinet. He keeps it all ineffably tender and tragic until Flora's death and then, as if his inspiration died with her, he lets it go watered away to a teary...
...Every year in the U. S. educational world there is a food strike. Usually, because of more easily outraged palates, more tender stomachs, the strike occurs in a girls' college...