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...foot level. When finally only the last step remained to be made much time was spent in waiting for a day on which the wind seemed low enough to allow Irvine and Mallory to make the run for their goal. The day came, as clear as crystal and the snow so rigid that it crackled underfoot. Very early in the morning the two fearless assistants started...
...Sailed on a river of crystal light, Into...
...Full and crystal-clear consideration traces the progressive relationship of a constitution "made in the days of the village blacksmith" to the titanic industry of our own age. But obviously the section on foreign relations most deeply engages the author's mind and heart. A source of serious concern to him is the ability of the House of Representatives by its revenue powers, of the Senate by its treaty powers, of the Supreme Court in judicial review, and of the several states by independent local action, to delay or nullify careful negotiations with the rest of the human race...
...speak of a civic pride that clings anxiously to dwindling incunabula. It is not a matter of tradition, for most of the old families have moved to Manhattan. "Foreigners" and their blowsy women cook goulash and whip children in the houses where 40 years ago candles shone in crystal girandoles, and violins complained all night. A newspaper writer recently referred to Brooklyn as the "City of a Thousand Freaks," and many of the throwbacks who still live there are queer sticks indeed. You see them scurrying along the sidewalk on obscure errands, babbling cheerfully to themselves some as wear Dundreary...
...orchestra, stars from the Metropolitan Opera Company, provided diversion for those who wished to sit in the great oak-beamed hall, once Mr. Vanderbilt's dining-room; but most of the payees preferred to spend their time walking through the five floors of echoing empty rooms, coveting the crystal drops on the great girandoles, or peering at Mrs. Vanderbilt's carved marble bathtub. James Ward, ancient watchman of the premises, pointed out that once it cost more than a dollar to buy one's way into the Vanderbilt dining-room. The proceeds went to charity...