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...coupled with an inborn sympathy for people close to the land. Such a novel as this must be traditionally heralded as "typically American" or perhaps, "as American as the earth from which its characters wrest their living", leaving to the reviewer's imagination a picture of brawny sons of toil, that solid backbone of the agricultural West and Middle West, that along with the sombrero and the pathos of the vanishing Indian form a part of the great American Tradition. Yet, however incomplete may be this traditional Americanization of America, the fact remains that "Three Steeples" stands as a powerful...
...Moscow is on "iron rations" of food, clothing, shoes; but in remote, unheard-of-cities, in "strategic centres of production" such as Azbest, Magneto-gorsk and Dnieprostroy (see map), the diarist found abundant food, clothing and shoes for the new pampered aristocracy of toil...
Most men who hold doctor's degrees from British universities (excepting doctors of medicine) receive them not for toil and research but as a mark of honor. Discriminatingly do British universities hand out kudos. Of three reasons most cogent to U. S. universities (to encourage or pay for endowment donations; to publicize themselves; to render genuine homage to great men), most often are the British guided by the third, marking with distinction the authentic great. None so marked can consider himself more highly honored than he who receives from Oxford University a degree of Doctor of Civil Law. Last...
...days Tun ney called on him and told him he was "out of the contract." "I asked him what he meant and he said: 'How can I afford to pay you 25% and Billy Gibson 25% and that 25% that Gibson tied me up for in Philadelphia? Here I toil and sweat up in the mountains. . . .' He ran his hands through his hair and said in a loud voice 'I don't know what this is all about...
...doing. It is not work, it is pleasure, it is joy. We do not say to ourselves 'Now we will spend so much on a moving picture.' We say, 'We will make the best that is in us. We will dream over it, we will toil over it, and if we put our hearts into it we will make something that will entertain and inspire the American public...