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...Arms Makers Work," by Vita and Joseph Friend, is an article that will appeal to almost everyone. While it is largely a catalogue of the facts, figures, and activities of the great war materials firms, it contains information not generally available in such terse form. The pacifist will find here material for endless confounding of his opponents; the militarist and members of the firm of Du Pont de Nemours will be stimulated to thought and research into their consciences. After listening however, to the recital of the enormous war-time profits of arms manufacturers, and of the interlocking directorates...
Greeting the puellae formosissimae, who are never omitted from the Latin Oration, Fitzgerald said: "Numquam nimirum vos preatermittendae estis, sorores, amicorum sorores, deliciaeque nostrae, quibus ademptis nostra vita aridis in libris inanis inutilisque fuisset. Pro tanta venustate vos ter quaterque salvere iubeo...
Copperplate engravings as well as woodcuts were used as illustrations in printed books. Several such books are shown. Pascal, "Henrici II ... Elogium" contains an engraved portrait by Delanne, and Aldus, "Vita di Cosimo de'Medici", Bologna, 1586, is illustrated with engravings by Carracci...
...bedazzling yet tasteful. There are 1,571 rooms for transients, also 500 rooms in the towers which are reserved for residential suites. It is estimated that 2,000 employees will work to make life run smoothly for the patrons. The hotel also offers such features as circulating ice-water, vita glass windows for permanent guests who desire it, a playroom for children and a special children's barber, a ''sitting room" for guests' servants...
...charity and a museum her children are furious but her own equanimity is restored. When one of her great-grandchildren comes to see her, to thank her for what she has done. Lady Slane is perfectly hap py, dies at just the right moment. The Author. Victoria Mary ("Vita") Sackville-West writes with such urbanity and aloofness, with what seems like such an inward eye of aged solitude, it is hard to realize that she is only 39. Like her diplomatist husband. Harold Xicolson. she is of the quiet and well-mannered school, in the best tradition of English life...