Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Myrtle whom he divorced because "Lord Byron separated from his wife, and some of my friends think I am a second Lord Byron." From San Francisco editors Poet Miller got rejection slips until his famous junket to England. Armed with a laurel wreath for Byron's grave, the manuscript of Songs of the Sierras, a pair of cowhide boots and a sombrero, he was taken up by Pre-Raphaelites, became the rage of Mayfair in no time. He whooped as he entered drawing rooms, smoked two cigars at once, picked his teeth with ostentation. Once he scuttled quickly across...
Seeing the glory of God in even the smallest created things, Flemish monks of the 15th Century used to make a point of it in such dissertations as On the Beauty of the Louse. Flemish painters, whose art was an outgrowth of manuscript illumination, showed the same reverence for the minuscule, became Europe's most meticulous realists. "All this is very popular," snorted Florentine Michelangelo. "The least artistic inteligence can find therein something that appeals to it ... but it lacks rhythm and proportion. . . ." The artist who most nearly united Flemish delicacy and Italian power of composition was Hans Memling...
John Roy Steelman, director of the U. S. Department of Labor's conciliation service, was in a most unhappy state. His manuscript rattled in his hands, he stumbled over his words. At the behest of Madam Secretary Frances Perkins, he had come to Manhattan to make peace between operators in the great Appalachian coal fields and United Mine Workers' John Lewis, who for seven weeks had been unable to agree on a new labor contract. Having heard him out last week, John Lewis ironically announced that the same committeemen who had failed before would continue to negotiate along...
...Reichstag next day it was 2 hrs., 17 min. mostly of fun with patches of wrath, scorn, warnings, threats, insults, sandwiched in between the gags. With a pantomime that he seldom uses, the Führer, when he rose to speak, eyed his manuscript suspiciously and comically before he began to read. The deputies roared at that ; Dr. Goebbels' Berlin newspaper Der Angriff next day explained: "It was a small gesture, but one heavily packed with meaning...
Among the Norwegian books shown are some of the great early works of this literature, in manuscript and printed form. One case is devoted to the works of Bjornstjerne Bjornson, modern Norwegian poet, novelist, and dramatist; and another case to the works of Ibsen...