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That was a task, as excerpts from their correspondence show: Shaw: "I forgot to tell you that you must not smoke big cigars. . . . If you lose your voice, you will lose all your authority in the studio. Your charm will be gone forever; and my plays will vanish from the screen. Try knitting instead...
...enthusiasm will be sufficient while the gripping and vastly important decision between war and peace is being made. A political union will have amply repaid all time and effort spent on it if it contributes toward a mature and thoughtful investigation of that decision, and even though it should vanish the day after the verdict has been given one way or the other, it will have fulfilled its purpose...
Birdsell and Tindale found that in the first generation Australian hybrids nearly all traces of native parentage vanish. Dark skin, flat noses and heavy brow ridges disappear, and the hybrids possess clear-cut white features...
Poet T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot attacked the Church in wasteland accents for letting Christian principle vanish from education. Sir Richard Acland was fiercer: "For over 150 years you have neglected your duty . . . because of sheer funk. . The whole structure of society ... is, from the Christian point of view, rotten and must permanently frustrate your efforts to create for the individual the possibility of a Christian life. . . . This has given Hitler the opportunity for saying 'To hell with the whole order.' He said this, and from despairing humanity he wrung forth a tremendous and dynamic response. ... In order...
Latin-American newspapers do not encourage women reporters. But a Brazilian newspaper, Diario de Noticias of Rio de Janeiro, last fortnight broke with Latin tradition, hired a female columnist. Said proud Diario: "This admirable woman, whose fascinating personality does not vanish behind the radiance of her husband's great importance, is not only a fine companion for the President but has a keen and brilliant mind and a generous heart. ..." Name of the column: My Day, by Eleanor Roosevelt. Flown to Rio thrice a week, My Day appears in Diario in both English and Portuguese, runs seven days behind...