Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Mrs. John Eckler, oldest of the five daughters of shrewd Branch Rickey, business manager of the St. Louis Cardinals: a son, weight 8 lb.; in Chicago. Gloated Baseballer Rickey, pointing to his grandson's large baby hands, a catching prospect: "Didn't I tell you? This proves there is such a thing as prenatal influence...
...identical 'situation.' Europe's secret talent up to the present day has been to avoid this, and it is the consciousness of this secret that has shaped the speech ... of the perpetual liberalism of Europe." In passing, Ortega y Gasset contributes to a minor but diverting branch of literature-anecdotes about inspired, rhetorical, self-important Novelist Victor Hugo. At his jubilee, Hugo was receiving the foreign representatives. To each he would murmur: "The English representative-ah, Shakespeare!" or "The Spanish representative-ah, Cervantes!" When the representative of Mesopotamia was announced, Hugo was stumped, since there have been...
...During the past decade the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (Yonkers, N. Y.) has experimented with almost all the standard elements, but farmers still rely chiefly on compounds of sulphur, mercury and copper. Since 1921 crops have been dusted with poison from airplanes. This is the most perilous branch of commercial aviation...
...When I consider her as a person," wrote Novelist James Branch Cabell of his friend, Ellen Glasgow, "she arouses in me a dark suspicion." Cabell's suspicion is that Ellen Glasgow "is a gentlewoman as well as a genius in an era unfavorable to either. . . ." Ellen Glasgow has aroused even darker suspicions among U.S. readers. They have suspected that she is dull or highbrow, and have translated their suspicions into a considerable lack of interest. Some who have read her Barren Ground, without reading They Stooped to Folly, consider her a too stern daughter of the voice...
...side of the back porch. At the other side lies the grave of a poodle. Two other Glasgow dogs are buried in the Richmond pet cemetery under marble stones. Novelist Glasgow likes dogs so much that she has a collection of some 75 porcelain and pottery dogs. James Branch Cabell also keeps a collector's zoo-lions, cows, horses, elephants, rhinoceroses in glass, bronze, amber, porcelain and terra cotta. One day Cabell admired one of Miss Glasgow's porcelain dogs so much that she gave it to him. Delighted, Author Cabell did not dare to put it down...