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...Pittsburgh, the Carnegie men left the skeleton partly exposed for tourists to gape at, other diggers to retrieve. In due time a party from Washington's Smithsonian Institution arrived, began busily to exhume the remains. They quickly discovered that the neck vertebrae were missing. When high & low search failed to disclose them, it was decided to remove the neck from another dinosaur which lay nearby and which seemed to be of the same species. The neck and the neckless skeleton were shipped back to Washington, mounted as a single specimen...
...longer do we have to turn on radio programs featuring Stoopnagle and Budd, Fred Allen, or even Joe Penner, in a desperate search for amusement. We have merely to listen to Hugh Johnson caterwauling about "musical blatant bunk from the rostrum of religion" in reference to Father Coughlin, or another "Pied-Piper (Huey Long) tootling on a penny whistle," all the while mixing his idioms in a grandiloquent style that is the despair of professional comedians. The newspapers also provide farcial tilts, with the highly electric crackles of the buffoon from Louisiana alternating with the heavy artillery of Senator Robinson...
...came to an Iron fence. The regularity of it intrigued him. After a feverish search about the sidewalk he found a small stick. Now he walked along the other side of the walk, tapping every other bar with his stick. The metallic clicking brought a gleam of satisfaction to his deep, intelligent eyes. Ah, this indeed is pleasure...
...much human likenesses as translations into brilliant descriptive talk of different types of human problems. Her characters are mostly riff-raff but gloriously magnified and particularized into heroic proportions: Michael, the burnt-out veteran of 32; Baruch, the philosopher of the one-horse printshop; Catherine, the virgin in search of an angel; Chamberlain, the cheerfully hopeless incompetent businessman; Tom Withers, the intelligently rat-minded foreman. Only ordinary character in the book is Joseph, whose very ordinariness lights up the grotesque genius of his companions, casts a reflected light on himself. Says he to himself, out of his bewilderment: "Here...
...Ireland was a mysterious party of five Englishmen. Leader was Andrew, brilliant bachelor Oxford don, who hid his heroic light under a staid bushel. Andrew was the type of true adventurer, as Sandy was of the shoddy. The expedition's real purpose was not, as given out, to search for butterflies along the Baltic coast, but to hunt through northern Siberia, with or without Soviet permission, for a saintly German scholar who had disappeared somewhere in the frozen interior. Before their ship came to port Greta had seen through Sandy, and she and Andrew were almost in love...