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...laid to piece; the statue grew like a head emerging from the casual, apparently unrelated strokes of an artist's crayon, until at last it stood complete and the wide marble eyes, the straight nose descending under the helmet's shadow, the curling beard still dusted with thin flakes of gilt, revealed the face...
...play about a street urchin who posed for a city statue. That was the point of the title. It seems more than probable that the Civic Virtue statue storm of the Hylan administration years ago in New York inspired the endeavor. With Irish street comedy and thin slices of plain folks philosophy it wandered along amiably enough. There were no eminent performers. The opening night a grey kitten strolled unexpectedly into the middle of one of the emotional crises...
...sunshine. He plays the part of a busted millionaire returning to his home town and buying everything in sight. Just as the inhabitants are about to solve his insolvency, he fastens on to a power franchise, wins the girl, and all of that. These things would be thin indeed were it not for Mr. Denny. As a matter of fact they are pretty good...
...strong?yes?but not so magnificently "horse-jawed . . . lean templed . . . highbrowed." You published an excellent but disrespectful description of Woodrow Wilson, all but the "longish ears," which you must have transplanted from a Bok photograph where they are indeed to be seen. President Wilson's ears were rounded and thin, often noticed them and was infuriated more than once by cartoons. . . . And one more point: you need not have been so sarcastic about Twice Thirty as to (Call it "one of Mr. Bok's autobiographies." He has written only...
...chief local henchmen of the Lord are Perry Northcutt, thin-lipped banker, and Roxie Biggers, merciless chariteer. Northcutt has it in for young Teeftallow, having failed to mulct him of some intricately inherited timberlands. So Abner learns more about humanity when he and Nessie Sutton come up for public judgment. Nessie is the milliner's assistant- tall, honey-haired, pious, nourished on novels. She and Abner live in the same lodging house, where laws of proximity and physiology grope through a natural course. Roxie Biggers sees their farewell embrace when Abner's work-gang moves away...