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...Colonel took off his uniform and left the Army for good. His friends expect him to continue as a civilian his fight for changes in the Air Service. Some conjecture that he will go into politics, start lecturing, go animal hunting in far and dark continents...
...after the state primary had given Johnson a plurality, McCamant read a sheaf of letters and several affidavits to show that he had opposed Johnson openly before his own choice as a delegate. The small, thin Judge, with dark hair and snapping blue eyes, appeared to be rather keyed up for the occasion. He read from one letter, written in 1920, saying that Senator Johnson was not a good American...
...great painter he is capable of liking them more passionately and more concretely than your common fellow. It is not merely their savor that appeals to him; it is their mass and rhythm. The concentric ovals of their yolks and whites, the fecund chromes bewitched to a dark gold, haunt his dreams with the memory of a beauty marvelous and fugitive. To satisfy the demands of that memory, he painted them, the fried eggs of his dream, in a form as compact as a concerto?a form that leaves upon the mind of the beholder a sensation as definite...
...soon evident that the hole was cut in one of the upper corners of a chamber of almost unparallelled size. The long yellow shafts of the lights could hardly penetrate the dark to the bottom. Only the glint of gold could be distinguished. A sort of "plank" could be made out across the top of sarcophagus. On the plank was inscribed in golden hieroglyphics, the name "Sneferu...
...conductor in the German Opera House at Prague. Strasburg, Cologne and Berlin knew him for several years. He went to Wiesbaden in 1923. It is his practice to spend half of each year traveling outside of Germany, so that Russia, Spain, Italy and Austria are familiar with his dark, dynamic genius...