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...York and Chicago, patient Boston's turn to live with father has arrived at last. And Oscar Serlin's production of the play based upon Clarence Day's entertaining book removes any slight suffered by the Hub in taking third place. Life With Father has but a whisper of a plot, but it is a roar of entertainment from breakfast table to breakfast table...
...particularly strong personality, Canadians quote Tennyson and say that he may occasionally "shape the whisper of the throne...
...first, because the stout old bantam cock couldn't reach the man-size micro phone, his gravelly voice grated away in a scratchy whisper for nearly a minute, to great choruses of boos and shouts of "louder!" from Mayor Kelly's men. Then the P. A. operator lowered the microphone, and Glass's hoarse whisper filled the stadium: ". . . An incomparable Democrat ... a man on whose word every human being can always rely. . . . Thomas Jefferson. . . . Since I have been sitting on this platform I have had two anonymous communications objecting to Jim Farley because he is a Catholic...
...spends much of his time in private sanatoria. He dreams of a vast Germanic-pagan world in which Teutonic supermen live in ideological bliss. Rational Germans, few of whom possess the Nordic qualities he extols, call him "The mad prophet of Teutonic superiority." Sanatorium wardens tap their heads and whisper "Vogel im Kopf" (bats in the belfry). When Fellow Dreamer Adolf Hitler sees occasion, however, he often revives Comrade Rosenberg from his traumatic reveries and uses him for launching a trial balloon into the disturbed European ether or even for making a definite pronouncement on Hitlerian plans. Last week, which...
...grin: the elevator (to his second-floor quarters) had stopped; somebody had turned the power off; he did hope that there was no connection with what had happened in Philadelphia. Correspondents saw the President glance at his secretary, Brigadier General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson, heard Mr. Roosevelt stage-whisper to a companion: "He is grinning like a Cheshire cat." And well might Pa Watson have grinned: he won a $25 bet on Wendell Willkie's nomination...