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...check. "If you spoil it through your own negligence, you get your money back. "If your idea of good champagne is peculiar, you get your money back. "If for any reason, or for no reason at all, you are not satisfied, you get your money back." Reassured by the brute force of guarantees, but still bewildered, serious clubmen sought the facts about the new, post-prohibition, U. S. champagne industry...
...Johnny broods over his ropes and ring, croons the ugly details to a fascinated small son, demonstrating with a grotesque rag doll on a miniature scaffold. In a drunken brawl at the inn Johnny champions a slattern, more unfortunate even than himself, befriends her, loves her, kills her jealous brute of a husband. She is convicted of the murder, and Johnny hangs her, dooming himself to tragedy...
...other all over the world until at last they clamped together in the heat and sog of the tropics. The cause of the final brawl is Evelyn Brent. In a sodden camp on a Latin American oil field, four men gaze hotly at her. One is George Bancroft, alternately brute & gentleman, star of this affair. He hulks, and moralizes, fights, and suffers to no profit...
Mussolini has tried by brute force to Italianize these people by suppressing the local newspapers and forbidding the teaching of German in the schools. He has forced Austrian families to change their surnames, if there was any Italian blood in the stock. He has done these things in spite of the fact that in 1922 he and the King of Italy insured the people of Tyrol that they might live unoppressed. His actions prove the extent to which Wilson's ideals have been adapted by nations only in so far as they coincided with the individual country's advantage. When...
George Eastman, going through Africa with gun and camera, came upon a white rhinoceros. The rare brute looked at him loweringly; he looked at the brute steadily along rifle sights; shot it dead...