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...dust on the temporary dirt road to Callaway Park blotted out everything three cars ahead. When the band struck up Back Home in Indiana as he appeared, the crowd made the trees shake with their racket. Away from the speaker's stand, as far as he could see, stretched the shirt-sleeved crowd, under the maples and oaks whose lower branches were cut away to lengthen the view. Sunlight filtered through the green upper branches and pierced the dust that rose in the grove. The crowd cheered through Representative Charles Halleck's introduction of Speaker Joe Martin, cheered...
...power of God we'll shake...
...which the floors were divided to segregate men & women, still stand as marvels of pegged construction. They worshiped, with ritual marches, dances, gesticulations, in great meetinghouses. At a Shaker dance, brothers & sisters lined up facing each other, with palms upturned to receive God's blessings, singing songs like Shake Off the Flesh...
...Christine thinks I mean; and the associational ideas in my mind, drawn from individual experience; and then the equivalent but entirely different points of reference in Christine's mind, to which I have no clue." Many a reader who admires Critic Paterson's flip newspaper way will shake a puzzled head over If It Prove Fair Weather. Those who are not scared off by its slow and mazy manner will enjoy its seriousness and sly competence...
Next, instead of going ahead with the formation of a huge Cabinet, Premier Konoye called together these three men to clarify their platform. Every plank was new as fresh-cut pine. They agreed to strengthen ties with the Axis; to shake up Japan's diplomatic personnel (i. e., inject a few chauvinists) ; to establish a "zone of stability in East Asia" (i. e., Japan's sphere of exclusive domination) ; to re-examine Japanese-Soviet relations, with a view to possible rapprochement; to end "reliance" on the U. S. and Great Britain; to leave political-party members...