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...alarming proportions, but thoroughly healthy. The spectator is given the idea that either Shahn did the work in this gallery when he was under different influences, or that the subject is so far removed from his own age that he can treat it in a more detached and sprightly vein...
...last pennies laughing and weeping in their beloved Vienna, before braving another decade of hardworking exile in a cruel post-war world. On the stage there is a reunion of some of the best dramatic talent, moving lightly about in a play written by Robert Sherwood in his happiest vein...
...born and reared, chancellor since 1925 of the diocese. Monsignor McFadden was consecrated auxiliary bishop by Bishop Schrembs, with Bishops Michael James Gallagher of Detroit and Thomas Charles O'Reilly of Scranton as assistants. Afterwards there was public dining and speaking, all of it in the proud, happy vein of Cleveland's Mayor Ray T. Miller who told 10,000 in Public Hall that "the consecration made history that Clevelanders are proud...
...Cricket Spirit." In characteristic vein Mr. Baldwin and his No. 2 Muddler, the Rt. Hon. James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, onetime engine greaser, now Secretary for the Dominions, permitted themselves to be interviewed by the Canadian Press...
...jewel thief's pack of cigarets, a few puffs of which make the smoker idiotic, fall into the hands of the police with moderately comic results. Powell invades Francis' house for a midnight call and more light comedy. The police raid farcically and in the same vein Powell does a bit of broken field running through the massed forces of the law. Powell's gestures seem modeled on those of a stage tumbler. He frequently washes his hands in air, as though drying them on an imaginary handkerchief. He clicks his heels and bows from the waist...