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...very well to develop a background that will help the whole atmosphere of the tale, but it is a mistake to make the background too prominent. It has the same effect of the announcement interrupting a radio program to advertise whosis' blue-white diamonds. S. S. Vine Dine makes his hero, Philo Vance, in the Greene and Canary Murder Cases say and do a lot of idiotic things in an attempt to give his story an intellectual and cultural background...
...latest enthusiasm is one of Mr. Insull's "office boys," a young man named Hamilton Forrest who, unbeknownst to Mr. Insull, composed an opera and threw himself, as many other youths have done but without his languid charm, upon Miss Garden's bounty. "He is di-vine!" she says, kissing her fingertips as she has seen the French do. "And 7 discovered him! I have done as much for French composers, for Italians. That at last I should have discovered an American...
...cross-section of hell, but a whole section of hell! There was immorality there. Yes, immorality! Hugging and kissing in public. I'm oldfashioned. I'm a Sunday school man." Lawyer Carpenter told the jury he was defending Gastonia. "where the dove of peace hovers around the vine-clad door and the kindly light of the autumn sun kisses the curly hair of happy children." Lawyer Carpenter called the mill-owners, his employers, "a holy gang, a God-serving gang." He recited a poem to Mother, shook hands with Communist Press Agent Liston Oak, sat down...
Erect and alone, Cadet Parham approached "The Point's" vine-clad walls, walked through its arched entrance lugging a suitcase, wearing a dark suit, a grey cap. With 385 other cadets he presented himself at headquarters for the routine of enrollment. On his registration blank under "Father's Occupation" he wrote: "Nothing special." He took a bath, was given a close haircut, his undress uniform. His room was a single one in the south barracks. On the basis of height he was assigned to the Second Company where he got a place in the front rank. Late...
...sure, he had married Dolly Curtis, a strapping, titian-haired lady whose Brother Charles was Senator from Kansas. But that fact did not affect the smooth and comfortable routine of his life. When Mrs. Curtis died five years ago, the Senator as a widower went to live in the vine-clad Gann home in Cleveland Park, informal Washington suburb. When his brother-in-law sought the presidential nomination last year at the Kansas City Convention, Mr. Gann journeyed out and took charge of the Curtis headquarters. It was pretty much a family affair and all very jolly...