Word: crisises
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"Pavel the Daredevil" it was, who, at 26, big, jovial and reckless, won over the sailors of the Baltic fleet to Bolshevism and thus sealed the doom of Alexander Kerensky. Returning to Moscow a hero, he enraged such serious-minded Communists as Lenin and Trotsky by light-heartedly dragging off...
Of course, when the crisis arrives, the family is forgiving--"overwork, don't you know," and in the meanwhile Mr. Hargrave treats the whole matter, if not with a profound sense, at least with certain touches that show him a knower of human nature beyond the ordinary.
"Roosevelt, when he took office as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, pushed the building program, for he saw that a crisis such as that over Venezuela in 1895, might bring the nation into war with a power vastly superior in naval resources and that our weakness in this respect might...
Yale, too, said Mr. Roth, has seen and conquered its gastronomical crisis. The Eli eaters receive food in a common dining-hall; they have menus prepared by experts. All the cooking is attended to by feminine hands. Yale is now content, but two years ago it seethed with anti-lunch...
At the peak of his success, Sam has double pneumonia. His weak heart fails slowly. As he lies grimly cheerful in bed, completely absorbed in the fate of his body, it is less and less upon his public fame, more and more upon his dead wife and Delphine that his...