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...idea, though old, is amusing, and the play has scattered good moments. But it is neither fast nor funny enough. What it needed was George Abbott's slam-bang direction; but it's no cinch, on Broadway, to shake an Abbott...
...firmness in refusing to look back gave him the firmness to say over and over in his mind the line that lodged there as he turned up to the camp. These terrible dreams that shake us nightly. These terrible dreams that shake us nightly. But if we tell them all they won't be terrible. And after a while they won't come nightly. Or shake us. Not if we hold each other and remember. These terrible dreams that shake us nightly. These terrible dreams that shake us nightly...
Emerson; there was an optimist! Famine, discase, suffering, and the greatest disaster of all, could not shake his serene faith that a benevolent power was behind all evils. Did cholera ravage a city? A cure would be found. Were ships lost at sea? Better ones would be built. Did men fight? A better social order would come...
Looking at Huey Long, old Louisiana aristocrats used to shake their heads. "Many of our Governors have been scoundrels," they said, "but up to now they have always been gentlemen." Right they were: from the reign of Carpetbagger Henry Clay Warmoth (1868-72) to the reign of Huey Long, too many amiable scoundrels and gentlemen figure-headed Louisiana life. And they left so much essential work undone that when Huey Long came bellowing and blasting his way to power in 1928 it was less like an election than like Louisiana's first payment of a longaccumulated fine for gross...
Besides threatening Sylt and Helgoland to make Germany's warbirds stay home, Britain also sent night patrols far into Germany last week, over Austria, Bohemia and northeast Germany, dropping pamphlets. This was the second major operation after a shake-up in the Royal Air Force in France. Until the resignation of War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, Britain's Air Force in France was divided into: 1) Army Cooperation units under Vice Marshal C. H. B. Blount, who took orders from the Army's General the Viscount Gort; 2) Advanced Striking Force under Vice Marshal Patrick Playfair...