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...There have been and will be lapses and discouragement, surface storms and disturbances. The shallows will murmur, but the deep is still. We shall be made aware of the boisterous and turbulent forces of evil about us seeking the things which are temporal. But we shall also be made aware of the still small voice arising from the fireside of every devoted home in the land seeking the things which are eternal. To such a country, to such a cause, the American Legion has dedicated itself. Upon this rock you stand for the service of humanity. Against it no power...
...Paris, "Antoine the Knife Thrower," notorious apaché, was persuaded by the police to explain how he had managed to erase from his chest two gorgeous tattooed designs seen upon him when last arrested. Sepia, charcoal and cinnabar bite deep. Science has failed to discover how to blench their mordant effects. Antoine's recipe, reluctantly yielded: pour concentrated tannic acid upon the illuminated parts, inject it into the skin by close punctures with needles, rub lightly over with a crayon of silver nitrate. With the thick black scab, off comes the tattooing...
...wind, whispering greedily to his black acres, caressing his blue-flowered flax in secret, eyeing his sows by lantern-light. In his cabin, a wife and children dulled and spavined by the cruel toil he holds them to with a miser's malice. Jude Gare, the one stalwart, deep-breasted daughter, who defies him, she having heard the wild geese honking down the high heavens. The night of Jude's escape, prairie fire drives Caleb to his beloved's bosom-the bottomless muskeg...
...marked its men. Only among the hills or upon the plains where the world still seems but an unnecessary preface to the heavens can the face of a man take on the spirituality of a Christ. Mr. Brangwyn may find his model there. If he cannot, he has cut deep into the flesh of modern pride...
...murder has been done. A lawyer, famous chiefly because he has never defended a case in which he is not convinced of the innocence of his client, takes the case. The wretched, half crazy husband of a lovely woman has been killed. She is charged. Deep in the play the lawyer discovers that she is guilty, despite her insistence to the contrary. To complicate matters he is in love with her. His problem, then, is whether to go through with the case or by dropping it virtually insure her conviction by his very act. He carries on and wins...