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...live again in pomp and pageantry. Homer's heroes exchanged ringing blows on the windy plains of Troy. Armored knights spurred in quest of the Holy Grail. Lear went raving over the heath. A tramp steamer careened across the Indian Ocean shearing spray off her bows, and the dawn came up like thunder.... And on the hard wooden chairs sat hundreds of boys, young barbarians, fascinated, spellbound, many if not most of them realizing, perhaps for the first time in their lives the delight of great literature, the majesty of the English tongue and the might of the human imagination...
...Harry Houdini, 51, has been interested in spiritualism since the official dawn of his manhood. Some time ago he made a compact with seven men, since dead, to send a message from the Gireat Beyond, hut he has not received so much as a sign...
...destruction of the Louvain University in Belgium, particularly its magnicent Library-"that cradle of the finest religious and scientific thought from the earliest dawn of the Renaissance"-was part of the cost that heroic Belgium paid for opposing the Germans in 1914. It was out of admiration for Belgium's brave stand that Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, representing the people of the U. S., offered to rebuild and restock the Library...
...faculties in geeing and hawing a turbulent assembly along the path of Fascism, it is evident that the mailed fist has strained its sinews. His hold on the Italian imagination is gone. It may be weeks or months before Mussolini disappears, but the romantic light of the dawn of Fascism has already vanished under the cruel glare of a full day of oppression, and it seems that the Italian people but awaits the time and occasion to dissolve this political monster under the destroying acid of its anger...
There were many Winkelberg relatives, all the same. The whole city, lusting and pulsing in greedy dark animalism, was a city of Winkelbergs. There were a million such Winkelberg cities, a world full of them, a Winkelberg mankind. Every dawn, when the red sun bowled up over the earth, all the Winkelberg bulbs stirred in a blind organism known to the Winkelbergs as a day of life. Personified, this day was a disheveled maniac, a Humpty Dumpty in streaming cheesecloth toga, bawling fresh tidings from Bedlam down the winds of the earth...