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...facile grace which made him adored of the great ladies of his day and keeps him popular since. "Pinkie" went-to Sir Joseph Duveen. "Pinkie," who was none other than Miss Mary Moulton Barrett, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's aunt, painted as a young girl coquettishly sauntering over a barren moor before a thunderstorm...
...Park declared that crowds whose search for knowledge is merely subordinate to a desire for pleasure, are debauching American institutions of learning. "Comparatively few students are at our American universities for the purpose of scholarship," Le says. And, he adds, efforts to instill a love of learning in, barren minds, are as casting pearls before swine...
...Francisco and other major cities. If Doremus & Co.'s revised advertisements were set up and a clean proof photographed, the Bell Co. would deliver exact reproductions where wanted. This was done, and the advertisement appeared according to original schedule. Doremus & Co.'s president, Economist Clarence Walker Barren, was pleased, advertised on his own account the arch-service of his office. C. W. Barron is the head of his profession-financial journalism- the biggest man in it, anywhere. Wherever there are bankers, investment salesmen and alert businessmen, there he is known. Few keep business secrets from...
Dozens of important men in finance have worked on Mr. Barren's staffs. When they first take a walk with him they feel like Falstaff's page. But he is no antic master, rather always the teacher. Brokerage houses hunt his men, offer them salaries even larger than they get from Mr. Barron...
...Both of these features figure in Blaise Cendrar's "Sutter's Gold." Throughout this tale of Sutter's truly Munchausian career the author in an attempt at sustained tenseness fails to appreciate the differentiation between fact, exaggeration, and fiction. The result is a hodge podge unique, but not altogether barren of interest. The economist might weep over two hundred dollar onions, or choke over a thousand dollar glass of water; the geologist might be alarmed over finding talc, even in California, to be a staple plantation product; but even the stylist would be intrigued by mountains "teaming with gold...