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...Macy's, proposed a monster campaign of peace propaganda financed by a levy of one dollar on every U. S. citizen. Mr. Hollister's plan at least shows that there is still a spark of emotional, idealistic neutrality left in America. With effort it may be fanned into a brisk, healthy fire...
...bearing of Eleanor Roosevelt : gracious, tall, long-legged, she strides smiling about her small, garden-like campus, on rainy days wears a long military cape. Famed is her habit of drowsing on the platform during lectures by visiting bigwigs. In her book last week President Warren sounded off in brisk, layman's language. Some Warrenisms...
...years ago brisk, paunchy Senator Joseph F. Guffey lost his grip on the Pennsylvania Democratic machine, which he had carefully tooled along through long years jammed with hostile Republican traffic. Instead of climbing down with a grin, he cocked a snook at the machine's new leaders, put up a ticket...
Fortnight ago a bandy-legged Billiken with a massive gargoyle head, a nose like a Bartlett pear, ham hands and fiddle-case feet, popped out of Central Park woods in Manhattan and loped off around the reservoir in a tiger-cat trot. Manhattanites who brisk around the reservoir in wintry weather are generally game guys, but one gander at this interloper was enough to send some skedaddling...
...Slight, brisk, spruce in the uniform of a major general of the British Expeditionary Force, the Duke of Windsor appeared at a London hotel, quickly turned in, leaving a "do not disturb" request at the desk. He was in England "on business." The Duchess of Windsor remained in France...