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...Englishmen seem to have forgotten all about backward America in the fury of their religious wars. Ten famous English writers, including Arnold Bennett and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were inveigled into writing their religious thinking, into the headlines of the London Daily Express under the title "What I Believe...
...first story interested a man who knew King Frederick VI. This friend persuaded the monarch to send him to school. He was very backward in his classes. He graduated, wrote dramas which were never played, books which were never published, until a novel, The Improvisatore, brought him suddenly to fame. In his spare moments he had written a few fairy tales, idle things for which he had no regard. He wanted to be a dramatist. He traveled through Europe; after his triumphant visit to England, Charles Dickens saw him off from Ramsgate Pier. His plays were refused. People asked...
...very fact that it is not likely to prove an effective agency in removing for a long time to come the bane of war from the recognized institutions of international relations. This weakness goes to the very root of international relations in what I venture to call this socially backward age. No mere addition of machinery can create that necessary will to peace which is the best guaranty of the efficacy of an international court...
...play is this: The Harvard team lines up with Miller, who weighs 200 pounds and can run 100 yards in ten seconds, back of his own goal. The ball is passed back to him, the number of backward passes depending upon the position of the line of scrimmage (four will usually suffice.) Receiving it, he starts running at top-speed in circles, gradually widening until he crosses the enemy goal line. The duty of the other Harvard men is to keep out of his way. I have proved mathematically that he cannot be stopped. My formula follows...
...defenders by ten to one. Nevertheless, the almost fanatically dauntless tribesmen, certain of Paradise if they die in battle, weathered the terrific preliminary barrage, attacked the infantry at close quarters with deadly curved knives, and finally had to be tracked, bayonetted and bludgeoned into submission. Abd-el-Krim, never backward at war, received a shrapnel wound in the leg while directing the defense of Bribane; was rushed by loyal tribesmen to a safe distance...