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...Democratic National Committee's formal dinner in the Rose Room of the Bellevue-Stratford had a fine veneer of gaiety. The joyous little desserts had lighted sparklers embedded in them. But there was little levity or enthusiasm. Welcoming the guests, Pennsylvania's Senator Francis J. Myers mentioned the name of Harry Truman only once and parenthetically at that. Then he pursed his lips in a graveyard whistle: "Nobody is going to lie down and die just to confirm a report in the newspapers, and neither is the Democratic Party. Who says we're dead...
...people, to Dr. Bruch (5 ft. 8 in., 145 lbs.), are not the placid and jolly folks they are generally reputed. Their good humor, she thinks, is a pose-a thin veneer over a greedy, irritable personality that will not brook any denial of its wants...
...Veneer & Cockneys. Fatigue has left its mark. The incomparable veneer of British courtesy has cracked; too many Britons are too tired to be invariably courteous. Even British honesty, which had been no veneer, has cracked; thievery in the customs and shipping services, notably on incoming parcels of food and clothing, is now an open scandal. Black-marketeering prospers as it never did during the war's bad years-and it is no longer considered shameful to admit a part...
Professor Ulich asserted that America has a great contribution to make toward a World Education Organization. But he warned, "we, and the other western nations, must not seek to impose an alien system of education, with a thin intellectual veneer, upon the more backward countries of the world." He emphasized that this applies to the reeducation of Nazi Germany...
Barker Brothers Corp., one of the world's biggest house-furnishing stores, is admitted by its competitors to be the finest existing example of "The Los Angeles Spirit." This spirit is compact of two things which Southern Californians love: 1) a gaudy, glittery Hollywood veneer; 2) a loud, high-pressure sales technique. Barker's had shown this spirit so effectively that last week, despite the acute wartime shortages of furniture, the company said its 1944 gross would be $15,500,000, the highest since...