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...Rome and is attempting to shock the reader by revealing them through the veil of satire. Seldom does he impress, amuse, or delight, but he always succeeds in disgusting the reader. Cleopatra in the passionate embrace of Antony, Cleopatra in the passionate embrace of Antony, Cleopatra stroking the "smooth dark, velvety skin" of her black African eunuch, Cinnabar, with her bear foot. Cleopatra drinking herself under the table at a Roman revel repeatedly gives one the impression that it is not a queen of Egypt writing of her experiences in Rome, but a first person description of a scenario. There...
Lacoste v. Tilden. The finals . . . RenÉ Lacoste, a leading, eellike man with blue-black hair, with dark circles under his eyes . . . Tilden, long arms and long legs covering the court like a madcap daddylonglegs . . . both confident . . . both using every weapon of the game, tantalizing chop-strokes, lobs, uncanny placements, cannonballs . . . Lacoste injuring a leg trying to recover a Tilden cannonball . . . Tilden being called three times for foot faults by Allan Muhr, umpire from the U. S. . . . Tilden arguing with Muhr...
...Reed, eloquent Missourian, ran second with 41,185. William Gibbs McAdoo, declared politically dead by Smith followers, stirred in his grave and captured 37,245 ballots. Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland, Wet champion of states' rights, totaled 26,113 and Governor Alvin Victor Donahey of Ohio, very dark horse, polled...
...muscular black men; big Negroes with rhythm in their shoulders; strong, dark prophets of the Lord leaning far out from the warning places; holy fire in their eyes, holy rhythm in their sway, holy words rolling out from their mouths of wisdom; softly now, then louder, getting deep when they roar of the Fiery Furnace; thundering the Lord and his works on Sinai; now softly again, slower, crooning how the Lord was in his good works at little Jerusalem; sobbing how the humbler Lord was broken and crucified by the white soldiers; and then blaring it out, then trumpeting brass...
...Dagny Kielland was unable to find in Nagel any of the well rubbed familiar surfaces, common to all men, by which people are accustomed to identify, if not to understand, other people. He remained a mystery to her. Nagel realized that it was impossible for her to penetrate the dark secrets of his mind. With the teeth of despair already in his heart, he began to see madness waddling toward him like an enormous lizard. "Then he made for the harbor at a run, the back of his waistcoat showing white as he ran. He was down on the quays...