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Reverse Pyrge. Was the South really going to secede again-this time from the Democratic Party? Not even Joe Bailey thought that probable. "I have been thinking over the burden of that speech for a long time," he said afterward, "and I felt that the time had come to utter it. The important thing is not that the announcement was made. The important thing was that, for the first time in 79 years, it could be justifiably made...
...Great Britain, China proposed the utter defeat of Japan, the utter destruction of its Empire, and war waged to these ends with no thought of mercy to or help from the Japanese people...
...nominate Joe Stalin-the powerful balance wheel of the United Nations, who steadfastly has kept his eye on the ball, namely-the utter defeat of Fascism...
Georges Seurat reacted from such peculiarities by being the most conservative of sons. He went to the reactionary Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he drew and painted in such traditional manners as those of Poussin, Ingres, etc. To the end of his short life, solemn, bearded Georges lived with utter circumspection, detested eccentricity of dress (the black suit and top hat best suited him) and was variously described by friends as resembling the St. George of Donatello, a young business executive, and a notary with the profile of an Assyrian king...
...year ago in They All Kissed the Bride. Once he was only a voice: in Cabin in the Cotton, Bette Davis tuned in on the radio, heard Dodd preach a sermon. Dodd's favorite picture was It Happened One Night, in which he appeared but did not utter a word. In the film Claudette Colbert bolted a big lawn wedding just as Actor Dodd was about to start reading the service...