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...Connor, McLaverty. In Part I of 1000 Years of Irish Prose (Part II, covering the first 930 years, will be published next year), Editors Mercier and Greene have made selections that lead like steppingstones through the turbulence of the great times; and almost every step is a literary gem...
...Rhinestone pin adorning the average 'Cliffe girl's Jersey may loog like a gem, but chances are that she bought it inexpensively at the costume jewelery counter of any large department store...
...movie does succeed, however, in fulfilling the other essential, good acting. Rashomon demands versatility. The woman must be a tearful maniac in one scene, a persecuted saint in another. The husband moves from cowardice to stoicism, but it is the bandit who really presents a gem of an acting performance. In his own version, especially, he is a cunning beast; oozing with braggadocio. Only half-clothed, his grimy torso shimmers with sweat as he embraces the woman with iron arms and presses his face to her fainting body. In all of his scenes, the bandit in his earthy way makes...
Negroes do not go to the Gem Theater, where the first-run films are shown. They do not eat in the white restaurants, or use the public library; and while the whites swim in the WPA-built pool, the colored folks, as the townspeople say, must "drown in the river." The schools have been separate as long as anyone can remember. Says Mrs. John C. Fisher, owner of the Cairo Citizen: "We've just never thought that this wasn't natural...
...Shell Game. In his profession, he soon found what he was looking for. Before he was 40 he was one of the world's foremost mining engineers ("My aggregate income . . . probably exceeded that of any other American engineer"), an operator of rich ore and gem mines in almost every corner of the earth, a multimillionaire whose viscera felt the first gentle urgings of philanthropy. When World War I came, Hoover, summering in England, became by accident the founder of a committee to get stranded Americans back home...