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...mistress had been Dolly Madison. She furnished the executive mansion with fine gilt chairs built in France, had the good sense to hide the Lansdowne portrait of Washington and fly to Virginia when the British invaded Washington. But when the British left, Dolly Madison came back home. As every reader of newspapers is by now aware. Franklin Roosevelt's Eleanor uses No. 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. less as a home than as a base of operations. Mrs. Madison was limited to horses as her means of locomotion. Mrs. Roosevelt rides her horse Dot in Rock Creek Park...
...uniforms, and strong shoes with the dark, patched garb of the proletariat. However, though trying his best to achieve impartiality, the author cannot avoid partisanship any more than all the other commentators who have flooded Russia and regurgitated their findings to us. Throughout the book Hindus impresses upon the reader his own firm conviction that despite all difficulties and whatever the cost, the Revolution will sweep on, brushing from its path all impediments, crushing all opposition. "The Great Offensive" will continue, for the idea has become part of the modern, Russian's soul; it is the nation's expression...
...epidemic of misprints and proof-reader's errors is making complete the intimidation of the Dunster trencherman. Last night the menu offered "Assorted Clod Meats" to the would-be diners...
...English secretary, told newshawks: "What a hungry mob of vultures you are! What dirty dogs! What torturers and persecutors!" Still suffering from a broken arm incurred two months ago in Bermuda, Mrs. Dick was carried from the ship on a stretcher, to a hospital in an ambulance. A Cleveland reader who asked Author Gertrude Stein to explain her motto, "rose is a rose is a rose is a rose," printed on her best-selling Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (TIME, Sept. n), received the following reply from Alice B. Toklas (Miss Stein's companion-secretary): "The device rose...
...Never Be," and in "A Natural History of the Dead," which is an excerpt from the prolix thesis on bull-fights, "Death In The Afternoon," Hemingway is bitter, and by no means at his best. "One Reader-Writes" is a letter from a young woman to a doctor columnist in which she asks him if her husband can ever be well after having "sifllus." After completing the letter she moans, saying to herself: "I wish to Christ he hadn't got any kind of malady. I don't know why he had to get a malady." This is an example...