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...Conrad, William James, W. H. Hudson, John Galsworthy. In July, 1914, he finished what was to have been his last book, The Good Soldier, joined a Welsh regiment as lieutenant, and went to the front. Returning from the War with health impaired, he wrote two novels in anger which were not published. He intended to write no more. He changed his mind, however, and in 1922 commenced his famed series dealing with England and the War, Some Do Not, No More Parades, and A Man Could Stand Up. The fourth and final novel of this sequence, The Last Post, will...
...other individuals. But I can't understand why real evidence upon the charges is not presented. I am willing to listen to the long-haired patriot from the Pacific coast. I am willing to listen to the witnesses from the Atlantic coast but [his voice rose with anger] I am not willing to listen to Mr. Russell, a Socialist ['prosecution' witness testifying of pro-British propaganda in the U. S.], whose greatest ambition is realized when you pit nation against nation." The Chicago affair may become Cadmean* for Mayor Thompson...
...thin despair and a narrow, terrible enmity. At last, one afternoon, Emily came in to find her grandmother dead. Whether her mother had found the medicine which Mrs. Elliot had expected her to provide, could not be told. Perhaps she had discovered some drug to still the anger in that ancient twisted heart. Emily asked no questions. She looked at her mother with fury and fear; but whatever Mrs. Fletcher commanded, Emily accomplished...
When in 1924 France grew exasperated at the Gordian knot into which Germany was lying the matter of reparations, she solved the situation in traditional military fashion by ordering her troops to occupy the Ruhr. Other nations, less precipitate in action, shared her anger over the matter of post war settlements. The situation was rapidly becoming a crisis when Charles G. Dawes, Owen Young, and their associates were appointed by the Reparations Commission to draw up what has since been called the Dawes Plan for Reparations Payment. The Dawes plan is responsible for the present stabilization of German currency...
Benediction in Georgia is a dark room in a prison. Near a table at the left a man in a frock coat is standing with his arms stretched out toward convicts who are sitting along benches. There are faces of anger, or despair, or ennui, or terror. A Negro looks at the floor hard, as if he were trying to remember something that made him sad. He is wearing a chain around...