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...will have to pay. Their idea: As a quasi-dictator Dr. Bruning must be harder on rich men than he would need to be as an out-and-out Mussolini. Acting on this idea the 1,400 rich men voted a resolution urging Dr. Bruning to tear off the mask, proclaim himself what he almost is: Dictator...
...that the association with Annette was the one incident in the life of Wordsworth in which he showed his real nature seems less than probable. "The Prelude", which Professor Herford takes as his source of information for the life of the poet is, according to Mr. Read, "a deliberate mask. It is an idealisation of the poet's life, not the reality. To show what the reality was--that is my fist purpose...
Behind this mask, Mr. Read finds to his almost gleeful surprise, a suppressed soul. So long as his love for Annette burned in his spirit, he could write such great poems as "Tintern Abbey". But the fog of British respectability soon clouded this source of poetic feeling, and after ten short years the fire went out for lack of fuel and encouragement. After that there is nothing. As long as Annette lived he was that poet of "reality" but one his love for her died he saw things only through the smoked glasses of conventionality. From that time...
Last Friday the baseball game showed up the human side of those austere and dignified members of the faculty better than Mr. Hoover's new secretary employed to "humanize him." Students flocked to see not simply the unbending official, but his personality behind the mask of officialdom. They went to see their elders take in good humor an occasional personal jibe. They came back satisfied that after all faculty men are not entirely unsympathetic, inhuman pedagogues. Yale News...
...that shopgirls call "cute." When his father, who was a vice president of New York Rubber Co. died, Robert Montgomery left Pawling School where he had learned to play good golf and tennis, took to driving a fertilizer truck. William Faversham let him play five small parts in The Mask and the Face. He lives in a bungalow called "Chez Montgomery," claims that he has worked every day except eleven in the past two years. He has succumbed to a few typical Hollywood eccentricities, such as ordering a steak for dessert, reading Russian history, wearing a bright yellow polo coat...