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...Desert) Lawrence. Said he: "Good Heavens, man, I've got a perfectly good motorcycle of my own. . . . I've never ridden pillion in my life, though I shouldn't mind doing so in the ordinary way. But Lawrence's machine is such a great brute of a thing and he goes so fast I doubt whether I could hold on. Probably I'd be left sitting in the road...
...given generally to understand, these days, that neither Princeton or any other American university can really educate a man--let alone cultivate him. The American university can, at best, merely instruct him in his A B C's. It remains for Oxford or Cambridge really to civilize the brute...
...throughout Lorenzo the Magnificent: Lorenzo "was perhaps a coward, a man of no principles and very little honor, inconstant, an opportunist, frivolous, and Epicurean. But he was neither brute nor a fanatical hypocrite nor a lecherous beast. ... All he wanted was peace . . . the good things of this world, wealth, and fun and art and love and learning." CYRANO-Cameron Rogers-Doubleday, Doran ($3.50). THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON-Dmitri Merezhkovsky-Dutton ($3). THE PHANTOM EMPEROR: THE ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY OF NAPOLEON III- Octave Aubry-Harper ($2.50). Many U. S. citizens go to Europe. Few know any history except the Anglo-American...
...Brooklyn one Anthony Bridetyeski was hailed to court by his wife, Lydia, at whom he had flung shoes. The judge asked her to sentence her husband. "He's a dirty brute," said Lydia. "Give him thirty days in the workhouse." After Anthony had been sentenced, came Pat Quigley and wife, Nellie, who had been punched and kicked. Also given jurisprudence, she said: "Give him the same dose as the other fellow...
...heavily into Schmeling's ribs during their head-to-head clinches. But Schmeling stood it well and got the better of this horizontal infighting. His jolting up-jabs eventually got Uzcudun erect. Then Schmeling continued his face attack like a boxer wearing down but unable to subdue a brute. Eyes closed and bleeding, nose clogged, breath stertorous, Uzcudun, who had never been knocked out, was saved only by the bell in the 14th round. Schmeling says he might have finished him off in the next and final round, might have looked much more like a World's Champion...