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...Schireson, the Record sent a patient to consult him about making her neck prettier. She found a "heavyset man, sixtyish in appearance, dressed in youthful tweeds. His ready smile revealed excellent bridge-work." He said that a neck treatment would merely give her "a perfect neck, a throat of vibrant youth, topped by an aged face." She should have "a complete rotary reconstruction" to make her face as beautiful as her eyes. "Your eyes alone," said Schireson, "would be the dream of any plastic surgeon...
...clock that night, a portentous hush settled on the German radio. Then came a flourish of trumpets, followed by the announcer's voice, vibrant with pride and triumph: "The Führer's Headquarters. The German High Command announces: A sub marine commanded by Senior Lieutenant von Billow has sunk in the middle of the North Atlantic the American aircraft carrier Ranger, employed to guard Atlantic convoy routes. The Führer has awarded the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross [of the Iron Cross] to Lieutenant von Bülow, the 234th member...
...York sent him a silver-banded cane. Fellow parishioners presented a $1,500 check. New York's Bishop William T. Manning made a speech. The choir broke into Burleigh's deft, contrapuntal choral ode, Ethiopia's Paean of Exaltation. In a baritone that was still vibrant, Harry Burleigh himself sang Go Down Moses...
...onetime Wagnerian soprano who has sung to more than 5,000 ships carrying a quarter of a million Allied servicemen in & out of South Africa's busiest wartime port. Standing on Durban's quays in her invariable white dress and red hat, Perla Siedle amplifies her vibrant soprano with a ship's megaphone. Yanks ask for God Bless America, The Star-Spangled Banner, Tommies for There'll Always Be An England. Australians want Waltzing Matilda. South Africans prefer their own Afrikander folk songs like Sarie Marais. Czechs, Poles and Greeks like opera arias...
Nevertheless, every last word of The Republic is stimulating, vibrant, energetic. Beard makes a wonderful prodder, a wonderful Socrates. And in departing from the "economic interpretation of the Constitution," he does much to vindicate the moral disinterestedness of the Founding Fathers. When he is all through he has pretty well succeeded in making his readers believe that human beings have potentialities for fair dealing that transcend any question of their economic or social status...