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...United States between 1912 and 1925 will have been borne in upon him and probably will have astonished him. For this was the day of a hundred schools of "Gists" and "Cists"; when the little magazines were spawned in the cities, the towns, and the colleges. Above the welter of schools and movements and pronunciamentoes and controversies, one figure stands out more dominantly than any other-- that of Amy Lowell, who was in the thick of the fighting on all fronts...
...personality clearly emerges from the welter of detail about people and books and events. Here is Amy Lowell joining the guests at her table after the roast has been removed and, despite having two plates of soup, catching up with them before the meal is over. Here is Amy Lowell, self-described, at an Advocate smoker, "smuggled into an upper chamber, and kept quiet with cigars while they heckled me in true undergraduate fashion. I think I held my own; I tried to." We may be sure that she did. Here is the sincerity, the generosity, the fearlessness, the humor...
...welter of enthusiasm and disparagement that resulted from last week's show, a few facts stood out clearly. Under favorable conditions, the Rust picker does pick cotton fast and cheaply. It costs $1 per hour to run. In one hour last week it picked 400 Ib.-as much as one average hand-picker could gather in four days. It does not injure the plants. But it does need a high-yield stand to do its best; the yield on the Stoneville farm was estimated close to a bale to the acre, whereas the national average is about one-third...
...many priests, nuns monks and even bishops have been killed by hot- blooded Spaniards dispatches and word-of -mouth reports to the Vatican did not indicate last week. In the bloody welter ot atrocity stories, tales, yarns, rumors and reports, not even Pius XI in all his wisdom could tell what was literally true about Spain, what was half-true and what was false. From the following Spanish material some credible, some incredible, this sad and weary old man was last week free to choose...
...this welter of jokes, proverbs, signs, schoolboy howlers, stories, wisecracks, the character of the people gradually emerges, hardbitten, hardworking, unaffected, forever asking two great questions that set the theme of the book: "Where to? What next?" Sandburg puts down with equal approbation a catalog of the casual heroisms of everyday work, the hazards of steelmaking, of mining, of railroading. He records the last words of a wireless operator on a sinking ship ("This is no night to be out without an umbrella!") and the names of railroads: The Delay Linger and Wait is the D. L. & W., the Delaware, Lackawanna...