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...wary adventures in friendship and moderately happy marriage of the daughter, are not particularly gripping developments. The validity of such a story depends on the extent to which the author can invest mediocre personalities with, not alone human naturalness, but significant human naturalness. By that token, these Surrys are only soso; just small-town folks with no claims on reserved seats in the grandstand for famed literary characters. But Miss Hull is well worth reading; she gives pleasure. She is precise without being precious or pompous; vivid without being vivacious?or "vital." She is one of the clear-headed people...
...place, lifted his scarlet biretta as sign of agreement or mayhap retained it in firm objection. Who, if any, dissented from the Pope's nomination, no outsider will ever know, for each cardinal has gone through the ceremony of the "opening and closing of the mouth" as token of his silence on papal matters...
That Harvard is at once the richest university in the country and the poorest is an old saying born of a very important truth. Rich by token of actual endowment, it is often poor by token of immediate needs. With the establishment of the new Harvard Fund whose details are announced in the news columns of this issue, this situation promises to become less serious...
...beautiful rug woven by the children in the orphanage in the Lebanons has been received. This, their expression of gratitude for what we have been able to do in this country for their aid, is ac- cepted by me as a token of their goodwill to the people of the United States. The rug has a place of honor in the White House, where it will be a daily symbol of good-will on earth...
...Camera warmed to its work with the presentation to Il Benito, amid stentorian cheers, of a sheaf of laurel-a token of the Deputies' relief at his escape from assassination (TIME...