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...dancing boys of the state department". I forgot to mention that here too he can see the correspondents of the opposition press twisting a mere nothing into a first class outrage and can also observe the administration press placing the few short1comings of the present administration in a dignified background...
...upon the temper of the official's judgment. The small college has often maintained that it was the victim of unfair decisions solely because the official was dependent upon the larger university for continued employment. Under the proposed plan, the criticism will be impossible, for it will provide a background which will be entirely free from favoritism--Cornell Daily...
...whole book is a grand parade, with banners flapping, barkers barking, and calliopes screeching, and the heroic portrait of Barnum ever in the background. If one can overlook this, which does grow distasteful after a time, he will find much that is entertaining, and much that is instructive in the art of kidding the public with pleasure and profit...
...treaties and battles have been in a minority in this country, but they have not been totally absent. The work of Professor Turner, of J. R. Smith, of Professor Breasted and of a host of younger writers among whom Professor Schlesinger is an eminent figure, forms the only proper background for the amazing synthesis of American civilization which the Beards have produced...
...background and general atmosphere is again London. The main jumble of the plot starts before the war in Vardon's house at Liverpool. We are introduced to his ten year old daughter Venetia, to Peter Serle, a young man, but already a member of Parliament, and to a uselessly rich Jew. Then we jump to London during the war. Venetia has just come home from school, and Serle, always close to her, is her devoted friend. At a houseparty she meets Saville, a young author, and dislikes him intensely. Six years later, Ysabel, American musical comedy star, enters the book...