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Three men sat, like the Three Fates, close together on the Government bench of the House of Commons. Like the Fates, they had power to cut a thread of life-the slender diplomatic thread linking the two largest countries on the globe. The British Empire had come to the point of severing relations with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Premier Stanley Baldwin rose from where he sat between Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain and Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston S. Churchill. Ostensibly they were calm, Sir Austen sitting habitually erect and glacial, almost prim; and Mr. Churchill slumped...
...Brother Saul," he has added to the charming lightness of touch and haunting melody of his style a certain strength, a subtle power that throws a brilliant light upon his characters and illustrates them through and through, while at the same time, he handles the old, and unfortunately often thread-bare, stories with an artistic delicacy that breathes into them a new life. In short "Brother Saul," lives--and that's the best one can say for any book...
...waltzes, and heavy footed comedians, through the blonde-chorused extravaganza with its endless array of stars, to the so-called "intimate" type, the last named is usually more dependable. Some pleasant tunes, a voice or two, a bit of fun, and a few good dancers, strung together on a thread of a plot, can fill an evening very happily. If the plot is stretched to an extreme fineness, almost all individuality removed from the music, and the good voice or two done away with, very little seems to remain. Yet on such a frail basis is built "Judy", which came...
...villain who shoots her pet race horse after good old Bart had won the big steeplechase. The race is a childish, ridiculous, clumsy scene, wherein one horse, galloping a mile a minute on a treadmill, was easily outstripped by the gingerly lope of another animal who had only to thread his way across a stationary stage. Later on, the villain commits suicide, and whatever of the audience remains is given explicit assurance that Connaught had never been a wife to him, had never even kissed him, except on the wedding day which does not count...
...Leonardo da Vinci was not only a painter and master of the fine arts. Much of his time and thought was spent in the designing of projects in mechanics, hydraulics, military engineering in feeling his way along the thread of experimental study in every branch of theoretical and applied scence known...