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...Chancellor thumbed not once but several times. When either of the Germans made a demand to which the Allies were not prepared to yield, the right Snowden thumbnail was placed tight under the Snowden upper front teeth and snapped twice in accompaniment to the words: "Not a bit of it! [snap] not a bit of it! [snap]" Provocative though this gesture was, Dr. Curtius and Dr. Moldenhaur did not seem to think they were being insulted, since the bony fingers of the Yorkshireman were not spread but closed and doubled as he thumbed...
...great man thus thumbnail-sketched was Gustav Stresemann who died of a form of apoplexy (TIME, Oct. 14). Thumbnailer: Viscount D'Abernon, patrician first Ambassador of Great Britain to the German Republic, writing in the January issue of Foreign Affairs, scholarly grey-bound U. S. quarterly. Of Stresemann and himself the Viscount writes: "For six years we were in almost daily intercourse. ... I believe that no two men in similar positions were ever more frank with one another or more free...
Author Wiegler presents a portfolio of 21 thumbnail biographies: impressionistic studies of men and women of genius. Some are boudoir, some bedside scenes. Heloise and Abelard, separated for life, long for each other and finally share a grave; Byron, fair, fattish and 40, dies of fever at Missolonghi; Goethe walks through the night to one of his many assignations; Oscar Wilde, under his enforced pseudonym of Sebastian Melmoth, dies a pariah at the Hotel d'Alsace in Paris; George Sand and Alfred de Musset kiss and wrangle; Tolstoy, in his last illness, flees his troublesome wife and dies...
...Dramatic Critic of TIME has fused scientific accuracy and poetic genius when he characterizes atoms as "the tiny secret stars that whirl in thumbnail welkins...
...Over Europe. "Up and atom," the scientists cry and in this play with its vaguely beautiful title Poet Robert Nichols and Stage-technician Maurice Browne have imagined a youthful researcher, the nephew of a Prime Minister, to have discovered how to control the tiny secret stars that whirl in thumbnail welkins. Perhaps the most encouraging trait of humanity is the ingenuity which it exhibits in making such discoveries; and perhaps the most discouraging trait in humanity is the lack of ingenuity which it exhibits in making use of them. The young atomist, accordingly, tells the British Cabinet about his findings...