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...them in originality and wit. One of the chief critical charges brought against Sandburg has been that he lacked an integrated philosophy that would guide his writing, that his poems have too frequently been mere expressions of moods, descriptions of street and industrial scenes, echoes of stray opinions overheard in crowds. As a poet he has been like a radio tuned in on several stations at once, getting bits of preaching, bits of political talk, bits of good music, bits of the chattering, discordant static of U. S. urban life. These several voices he has never before fused into...
...thoughtful and isolated soul. Scarlett got Ashley alone at an all-day barbecue on a neighboring plantation, asked him to marry her, counting on her looks and his chivalry to make him do it. He refused. Then Scarlett found that her shameless offer and his humiliating refusal had been overheard by a wicked man who despised Southern chivalry. Until this point, after more than a hundred of its many pages, Gone With the Wind is pretty hard going. But in Rhett Butler, Author Mitchell creates a character to match Scarlett, gives her a real enemy to fight. Rhett...
...gallant Dr. Robertson, TIME'S profound apologies for attributing to him a remark supposed to have been overheard by Joseph Nearing, one of the first men to reach the entombed physician and his living and dead companions. Last week Overseer Scadding, the other survivor, was in danger of having ten gangrenous toes amputated as a result of the accident...
...distinguished persons moved past the Throne with such rapidity that a Buckingham Palace flunky was overheard to say of His Majesty: "He fair had them going at a dog trot...
Those who have been with the Vagabond on some of his previous journeys may know that he too is an admirer of Alice and her wonderland friends. It is only the pressure of routine affairs that kept the Vagabond even these few days from telling of a conversation he overheard as he lay musing in his Tower the other night. Alice, apparcutly, had been reading over some fables; and, as usual, trying to make conversation...