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Ready for insertion whenever the program needed them were first-rate Albertina Rasch numbers; the Britton & Gang orchestra which smashes peanut brittle violins with acrobatic abandon; dusky, soft-hipped little Reri from Tahiti, native star of the film Tabu; Miss Universe and the next two prizewinners fresh from Galveston's beauty contest; mincing Albert Carroll (without makeup) and his impersonations. Better than any of these, the gangling 17-year-old named Hal LeRoy is a new loose-leg hoofer with the appeal of a playful, intelligent puppydog. The show was his whenever he danced...
...most of his associates want Drs. Coffey & Humber and their cancer extract kept away from New York. They are positive that the Californians have no scientific foundation for their work and claims. They fear that the hope of a Coffey-Humber cancer cure will persuade the cancerous to abandon the orthodox treatment of surgery, X-rays and radium. To support his arguments he had present the presidents of every county medical society in and adjacent to New York City. In addition...
...have decided absolutely to place no obstacles in the path of the Republican Government, which, for me, above all is now the Government of Spain. . . . It would be the greatest sacrifice of my life if I should be forced to abandon Spain. It would be very sad if, some day, history does not do me justice...
...structure is called upon to fulfill. Style cannot be affected, nor can the organic simplicity which Wright regards as requisite to characteristic modernism. "Simplicity and style both are consequences, never causes," he advises us. That it may be true to its expression of the modern spirit our architecture must abandon its faking of old modes, recognize the new methods, and confidently assert its own materials and potentialities...
...valiant and all that is evil in man is flaunted before the public. Reputations rise and fall as the years go on, but they are reputations built upon a blunder or a heroic gesture. An era of peace follows in which the nations analyze themselves, reckoning the wild abandon, of youth or a business depression as the heritage of war. During this era, men as well as nations analyze themselves and their fellows. A host of memories is foisted upon the people. Statesmen, generals, politicians all, in the perspective of the years, gloss their blunders and magnify their names, Reputations...