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...person devoid of ability cannot be taught to act. There must be some talent present, and the only way to bring it out, and to perfect it, is to get experience; such, for example, as that offered in school and college dramatics. I know that the first time that I really began to act was one evening, three years after I had taken up the stage. I was playing in a light, romantic comedy. Suddenly I heard the audience laughing, and realized that what I was saying, and the way in which I was saying it was making them laugh...
...since the book is an attempt to remember things past, and to recapture their essence. The author muses on life in a German Lutheran minister's household, situated in a German settlement in New York State. The life that is led there is not melodramatic, and is quite devoid of any pretense to greatness as commonly conceived. Yet each little incident, in itself hardly of vast importance, is worked into a pattern or mosaic which, as a unity, has meaning and significance...
...inject a single sour note. His remark was commonplace enough, considered in the light of our own days, but in 1926 it had an alien and an unfriendly sound. What would happen when the market had been glutted by his ever more efficient production, when the only people devoid of a Ford tonneau were the people devoid of a Ford tonneau were the people without money or the prospects of earning...
...exercise, on his knees too. With his brown-haired German wife Elwine looking on, he plays horsie for half an hour with their two chubby and attractive children: Eva, 5, and Rudolf (better known as Rudi), 2. But Chancellor Dollfuss' Catholicism is studded with Calvinistic phrases. He is devoid of personal ambition, believes himself directly inspired by God. Correspondents figure that when explaining his policies he uses the phrase "according to my conscience" at least once every ten minutes. Dollfuss, incidentally, like equally devout President Alcala Zamora of Spain, is one of the few statesmen who never prepare...
...Hereford and Shorthorn strains go for hundreds of kilometres into the interior which in many parts has narrow gauge rails for transportation. Swamps and bogs are to be found in every part of the world that are underpopulated, or, as still of course is the case in the Chaco, devoid of population. But it is not difficult to settle, as has been proved by the recent colonies of Canadian and Russian Mennonites. Soil is generally very favorable for agriculture. The Chaco wants ploughs, not machine guns. GEORGE H. PEARSON Asuncion, Paraguay...