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...Smooth Blend...
...great physical discomfort, many a hairbreadth escape, but never for an instant ceases to be a perfect English gentleman. He rides in a circus, skins through a fire, hides in a creek, saves lives right & left while preserving himself for a happy and innocent ending. Author Marsden's smooth blend of color and complication might well start the addiction of conscientious objectors to the detective story...
...economic flavor of Professor Beard's former works, that economic bias which has done so much to discredit what its pedantic opponents have seen fit to call the "new" history, is to be found in "The Rise of American Civilization", only in the degree to which it may best blend with the political history, the social history, the intellectual history of the subject with which the study deals...
...alone a raison dieter for Cambridge police, but a hors d'oeuvre for the jaded taste of the usual Cantabridgian. To know that when the tradie is quarter and the steam shovels have momentarily a ceased steam shovels have momentarily ceased steam shovelling a gay group of engineers will blend their voices and the windows of the Square in the harmony of a delightful and unique discord is refreshing. Hats off to the engineers they make such excellent mobs...
...record it. Such spraying valleys, such a flight of flowers and beasts, are the speech of a man who loved the world and knew its changing story. Reds ring together like swords clashing in a book; the silver of the hills, mountain greenery, the gold of the sea, blend and flash under the square border where no wind blows, where the genii squat on their haunches, half-gods patient of subjection, waiting without haste for the repose of all things...