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...promised Virginia a Cabinet job and Carter Glass refused the Secretaryship of the Treasury) few Washingtonians expected great things from him. But in four months he has proved himself a shrewd and aggressive naval chief who runs the department instead of letting the admirals run it. A good mixer, he has known most of them by their first names for years. His pince-nez slide down his long snipe nose. He wears coats two sizes too big. His felt hat is generally cocked at a raffish angle. For weekends he goes off on a destroyer to sniff salt...
Builder Martin's engineering staff is always of the best but he is not a good mixer, has had numerous bitter quarrels with business associates and employes. One such is his onetime chief engineer. Donald Douglas, now a famed airplane builder of bombers, amphibians, transports in his own right. Builder Martin has not piloted a plane for some 15 years. He dresses nobbily. lives in Washington with his mother. Mrs. Minta Martin, his constant companion, who was to be on hand this week when President Roosevelt formally presents the Collier trophy...
Neither man was much of a mixer, but so far as I know, neither had a sordid past. The election was influenced by spite, and by personal considerations which today one would call dirty politics...
...their affairs with Agemaki and Kozeri, Prince Hachi's lovely daughters. Kaoru is an exceptional youth with such a natural fragrance that even at a distance people can smell his "hundred-step scent." Niou, who carries no such natural musk, tries to emulate his friend by becoming an expert mixer of perfumes. But Niou's personal life, dedicated to endless amours, is not so savory. Kaoru. with heavenly leanings, leaves women and the court alone...
Hymn-Writer Watts, a gentle, humorless metaphor-mixer, wrote many & many a hymn. Probably he never pictured to himself a Christian, with spotted soul under his arm, flying to the fountain as to a gory laundry. But modern Methodists, sincere as any one in accepting the allegory of the Blood Atonement, raise their eyebrows at the language in which it was couched. Currently a number of hymns by Watts and the Wesleys are slated for omission from a revised hymnal prepared by a joint commission of three Methodist Episcopal Churches (TIME, March 14). To young people they are "revolting," says...