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...Like Tennyson's brook, Senator Charles Linza McNary seems to go on forever. Republican McNary went from Oregon to the Senate, at 43, in World War I: he is still there, at 67, in World War II. This year up popped a brash Republican to take a crack at Invincible Charlie. Squat, bespectacled Attorney Arthur M. Geary is no glamor boy, is considered a nuisance by most Oregon G.O.P. leaders. But he slung out a slogan that no one could ignore: "MacArthur v. McNaryism...
...Tennyson on his poem, Lucretius: "What a mess little Swinburne would have made of this." > Somerset Maugham on "the bitter purgatory" awaiting Henry James in the hereafter: "Poor Henry, he's spending eternity wandering round and round a stately park and the fence is just too high for him to peep over and they're having tea just too far off for him to hear what the countess is saying...
Reading these lines from Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry Ford, brisk, smiling and 78, gave newspapermen his views on the post-war world. If it was not surprising to find Henry Ford quoting Tennyson, it was surprising to find him urging the U.S. not to wait until war's end, but to act for federation...
...Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Alexandra had been strictly brought up in the vikingly virtues of sewing and Swedish movements. Sometimes Hans Christian Andersen would drop in to read her one of his morbid little masterpieces for children. In England his place was less excitingly filled by Lord Tennyson who hailed Alexandra's marriage with these lines...
...years afterwards, Alexandra asked Tennyson to read this poem...