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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bade farewell to the departing Swiss Minister, popular Marc Peter, and welcomed the incoming Swiss Minister, handsome, mustachioed Karl Bruggmann, not forgetting to say a good word about the long and honorable course of Swiss democracy and the health and good-will of U. S.-Swiss relations...
Shoes. Now into action came three Isolationists by inheritance, standing in the shoes of Isolationist Fathers: La Follette, Clark and Lodge. Day after day the Isolationists took the floor to bellow steadily all afternoon. The galleries were more than half empty; the press doodled or played word-puzzles in the press gallery. Shockproof to the familiar roar of the Isolationists' big guns, the reporters sat up and took notice only when two new cannoneers appeared: homespun, silent William John Bulow of South Dakota, glib, emotional Dennis Chavez of New Mexico...
This is a book without "theories" about the plays, and I enclose the word in inverted commas because the book is in fact crowded with theories which are carefully to be distinguished from the stuff of doctoral theses. Mr. Van Doren's comment on Falstaff's style is a case in point: "(Falstaff) being old and fat, he is short of breath and so must be brief of phrase . . . He has made the most of this limitation. Artist that he is, he has accepted its challenge and employed it in effects that express his genius with a notable and economical...
...techniques of many brain and nerve operations. Caring little for relaxation, less for social affairs, he labored phenomenally, sometimes spent eight hours on an operation, then always jotted down notes and sketched diagrams for hospital records. One day in 1926, while preparing for a ticklish brain operation, he got word that his son had died. He telephoned the news to his wife, returned to his patient, performed the operation successfully...
...which have been brought together in Fogg Museum, may, at first glance, seem unrelated. They do, however, form an unified program for the purposes of vagabonding. They are joined to one another in the contrapuntal manner which characterizes a Dos Passos novel. Chronology, in the traditional sense of the word, is distorted; seemingly insignificant details are accentuated and blossom forth in their true colors to capture the imagination of the curious person. It is possible for one to find, in these many types of art now on exhibit, that diversity of kind and opposition of approach which, in the final...