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...beginning to dawn on many that there is too much toadying to theologians. The world advances in spite of their teaching ; so why give so much space to exploiting the exploded, the ignorant, the superstitious...
When Foreign Minister Gregory Vassilievitch Tchitcherin is in Moscow it is not unusual for the windows of the Soviet Foreign Office to blaze until dawn. M. Tchitcherin is lank, indefatigable. Once an aristocrat and trained in the Tsarist diplomatic school, he has espoused the cause of the Soviets with a vehemence that drives his hard pushed subordinates to the last fringe of desperation...
...there was a casualty. Prince Henry, third son of the royal house, galloping at the head of his company of Mercian Hussars fetlock deep in mud, dawn a country road, was caught in the open by advancing Wessex tanks, spitting death from their three-pound guns. He dismounted and stood grinning by the roadside in his steel helmet, crying: "I guess we're out of action!" even before the umpires wrote him down as "killed in the field of battle...
...their hills they scuttled and out again, back and forth to the bookstore, the stadium, the lecture hall, the soda fountain, the library, the bootlegger's, the chapel. (I ¶ At Yale University, not as many entered Battell Chapel as formerly in the drowsy, blink-eyed crack of dawn (8 a. m.). Unmoved by years of protest against enforced religious observance, but compelled by the physical limitations of their spiritual edifice, the Yale authorities had decreed that only freshmen would be required to attend daily services hereafter. The three upper classes would alternate their weekdays of devotion, would worship...
Sailing on the Paris, M. Caillaux was intercepted and honored by a British squadron off Plymouth. In the early dawn his terrified fellow passengers: rushed scantily clad upon deck. "Est-ce encore la guerre?" they demanded, wild-eyed. It was M. Caillaux receiving a thundering British salute of 21 guns...