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Ulysses is an epic constructed on the principles of solid geometry, a synthetic dissection. Showing a thick segment (in time: 20 hours) of one day's life in Dublin, it cuts through many a solid slice of human tissue. It slices through "literary" brain cells...
...general counsel of Bank of United States when it crashed three years ago. He had been tripped by the same deal which had sent to Sing Sing Bernard K. Marcus and Saul Singer, president and vice president respectively of the bank. This particular deal was but an infinitesimal segment of a ring-around-a-rosy scheme to have certain affiliates pay off loans to the parent bank, involving five distinct series of transactions among six subsidiaries and two dummy corporations in various combinations and andry permutations. Two questions were involved: 1) Was the deal a crime...
...enemy by destroying property, began to make him more hated than "Butcher" Grant. But he was successful. News of his capture of Atlanta came just in time to save Lincoln from defeat at the polls. Sherman's famed march "from Atlanta to the sea" was only a short segment of his whole campaign; from July 1863 to March 1865 Sherman led his army 2,500 miles through the heart of the South. At Raleigh, N. C. he finally got what he went after: Johnston's surrender, the war's end. Few weeks before, Lee had surrendered...
...author's have taken a perfect segment of life in their selection. There is Dan Packard, the unscrupulous business man, self-made, of course, who continually remains the audience that his bad manners are traceable to the Montana mining camp. There is his wife, a check-room girl, beautiful, cheap, pampered, dumb, who is the cynosure in the boudoir scene. Then the authors proceed to fill out the play with servant side. The villainous, sleek chauffeur, Ricci, the apex of the triangle completed by Dora, and Gustave, whose continental manners embroll the kitchen in a melee with the carving...
...internationally-minded Newton Diehl Baker as a deadlock candidate. Californians were not surprised this month when five Hearstpapers (Los Angeles Examiner and Herald & Express, San Francisco Examiner and Call and Oakland Post-Enquirer) began puffing the McAdoo Senatorial candidacy in the highly colored Hearst news columns. According to this segment of the Press, everything Mr. McAdoo said and did produced CHEERS-CHEERS-CHEERS...