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...Ashurst of the Senate Judiciary Committee could not resist a sly dig as his committee received the appointments for confirmation. Indicating to newshawks that he might have to hold on them the extensive public hearings which Nominee Black did not get, Senator Ashurst put his old tongue in his cheek, observed: "You may say that the Judiciary Committee will proceed with exasperating slowness as has been its custom in the past...
Covarrubias believes that the Balinese became a race of artists because the rich land and their social organization gave them leisure, because art never became the exclusive possession of intellectuals, because the remoteness of Bali protected it from foreign influence. He found on the walls of North Bali temples, cheek by jowl with bas-reliefs of gods and monsters, some comic-strip carvings showing a fat Dutchman drinking beer, a man cranking a car, a highway robbery modeled after a scene in a cinema...
Almost two quarters passed of play before the sky could no longer hold back its tears. They were first sobs, blown against the cheek by the wind. Small, individual parts of the mass buttoned coats, donned cellophane slickers, threw newspapers over their heads. The sobs became hysterical weeping, and water slashed upon the stands and upon twenty-two men playing like intent children with a pigskin...
...slot-machine purveyors. Only unguarded moment: a rump-wise view of His Honor clambering over the gunwhale of a boat on one of his inspection tours; only peaceful moment: Husband LaGuardia flopping into an armchair at home after a hard day's work, patting his wife's cheek when she announced his favorite dish, pasta e fagiuoli, for supper...
...essential to good health. But there are not enough letters in the English alphabet to go around. In addition to that difficulty, special students of vitamins are so bewildered by the mounting mass of facts about vitamins, that Professor Clive Maine McCay of Cornell put his tongue in his cheek and wrote for last week's Science...