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With his audience thus quelled the onetime Dictator spoke: "The Tsarists were the first to come sniveling to us, swearing loyalty to the Revolution. . , The Bolsheviks stole the freedom of the Russian people. . . Both enemies of Russia. . . Someday a new freedom. . . Help for the cause. . . Dawn...
Apply those speculations to War, Politics, Love, and Religion, and a new Dawn cracks Man's horizon and the World...
...words. Senator Moses, protectionist, read a four-year-old low tariff speech of Senator Underwood. Senator Blease mouthed the Constitution of South Carolina and described the life and death of Jefferson Davis. Senator Reed of Pennsylvania mumbled election returns from his state, said he hoped to reach Georgia by dawn. A correspondent in the press gallery whispered: "Poor fellow, Reed would stand on his head on the Senate floor if Bill Vare asked him. . . ." The Senate restaurant was out of coffee. Mr. Heflin was asleep on a lounge; a thoughtful jester had covered him with a red drapery...
...filibuster went through the dawn, through the next day, into the next night. At midnight the Senate adjourned until 8:30 a. m. From that hour until the final adjournment at noon, the wrangling grew bitterer . . . bitterer...
...dawn of Saxon history, with heroic ideals looming in twilit feudal minds. Aethelwold, the king's foster-brother, prepares to ride into the dawn for the king's bride-a flax-haired Lancelot for a bucolic Arthur. They pledge their fraternity over staked swords. . . . Later, in a druidic Devon wood, Aelfrida's beauty twists this pledge. It is too early in history for a Lancelot to live with his own deceit. He buries his dagger in his own chest for brother-love, which is yet held above love for woman. Hasty critics have objected that such...