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...finished the picture in his workroom at Woodsome Lodge. Professor and Mrs. Osborn drove through a violent storm to see it. Sargent met them and then disappeared behind a partition, returning with an easel made of lima bean poles. "Turn round and hide your eyes," Sargent said; Professor and Mrs. Osborn obeyed...
TOMORROW MORNING - Anne Parrish - Harpers ($2). Anne Parrish and her brother Dillwyn must have had a collection of aunts, grandmothers and female neighbors all of whom they loved until it hurt but who nearly drove them insane with fuss-budgeting, shilly-shallying, dibble-dabbling, microscopic solicitude and spiritual myopia. As the young authors-to-be grew up, quick-witted, sensitive, gay, they must have talked together for hours about these people and their plight - perhaps in a meadow like the dewy one in their book Knee-High to aGrasshopper - and been consumed by that uncomfortable emotion which is a mixture...
...fell upon the attackers. Maddened, they felled him, slashed off his hands, his nose, gouged out his eyes. . . . As policemen arrived the two attackers fled, unidentified. President Diaz rushed to the coachman who had saved his life, lifted the man into his carriage, climbed onto the box himself, drove furiously to the nearest hospital. Not until the dying coachman had been attended to did President Diaz notice the pain in his heel, discover that he had been wounded. . . . Significance. This barbarous, indefensible attack on President Diaz evinced the hatred which he inspires among Nicaraguan Liberals. They...
...barn; bounded in, flung himself at a 1,500-pound bull which had Farmer Dvoracek cornered, prostrate and already gored; seized the bull's nose, hung on while being flailed about until a chunk of nose and the bull's ring tore away, leaped for another grip, drove the bull outdoors bellowing, bounded to the kitchen door, barked, led help to Farmer Dvoracek...
...Battle Creek, Mich., the large Angora tomcat of a Mrs. F. C. Philo eyed a man who entered the Philo home as a metre-reader, saw the man seize Mrs. Philo and bear her to the floor, leaped upon the intruder, bit, clawed, screeched, spat, drove him from the house...