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...Square, reported that 25 of its plows were kept busy clearing the tracks of the district, a figure unprecedented for the winter. It was stated that car movement proceeded about as usual, interruptions being largely due to the automobile traffic. Students with 9 o'clocks, however, had to thread their way through a line of cars extending from the Square as far as Quincy street...
...Echo de Paris said: "Chancellor Marx is simply taking up the thread of the Cuno and Stresemann maneuvers...
Fourteen fitful fragments of their decline and fall are whisked by in staccato succession. Fourteen is too many times to snap the thread of theatrical illusion. Rather a restless rise of suspense is the result; it sags and roust be picked up again with visible effort at the beginning of each scene...
...would have his wood-winds bite as with the little white teeth of Salome in the old chronicles; when the dance ends in a whirr of trills, high and shrill, darting and piercing, the conductor was heightening voice to the composer and as quick, sure-fingered, with every thread of instrumental color...
Which is not to say that the book is merely sugar-coated history, for it is not. It has little mechanical intricacy of plot but a strong thread binds it together?the thread of Fremont's inevitable and typically American struggle up from the status of a "neatherd"#151;his adventures in local politics?his love for Winifred Ashe and their runaway marriage?his friendship for the outlaw Bushyagers?Winifred's tragic death and the unhappy chance that left Fremont a widower, with two children to support and the debts of his somewhat rascally-father-in-law to shoulder?...