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...inevitable catastrophe awaiting them, and how the heroine appears at the end in a tent show somewhere in Georgia--all this is told nimbly, if a little incredibly at times. The climax is good melodrama, and little else. If Mrs. Hey ward writes more light novels in the same vein, they can all be recommended for summer reading with the same assurance with which "Three-A-Day" is approved...
...Iloilo, P. I., a dying steel-spurred righting cock, wildly fluttering, fatally gaffed Juan Martinez, spectator, in the jugular vein...
Here, obviously, is a Clémenceau "just talking," smiting the conversational anvil for the fun of seeing sparks fly. Of Greece?the grand, spiritual inspiration of Clémenceau's life, almost his religion? Clémenceau could say to Martet in humorous vein...
...refreshingly satirical draught from the Plutonian spring. Poet Hoffenstein's second book, Year In, You're Out, contains much the same kind of thing in much the same manner, but here is less satire, more lyric yearning. Again it is Poet Hoffenstein's sourer vein that suits him best...
...companies took the stand of the Messrs. France and Holmes, others, including Standard of California and Associated Oil, agreed to cut refinery runs. The Mellon-controlled Gulf Refining Co. asserted that their gasoline reserves were low, that there was no need for them to cut distillation. In the same vein, Edward G. Seubert of Standard Oil of Indiana said: "We believe the appeal has merit. . . . We are running only sufficient crude to produce gasoline to take care of our current requirements...