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...developed a mortal hate and fear of Carthage, much like the mania U. S. Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama now has against the Roman Catholic Church. Senator Cato drove his point home by concluding all his speeches with the phrase: Delenda est Carthago! ("Carthage must be destroyed!") The year Cato died, Rome started her third Punic War (149-146 B.C.) and Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus the Younger literally did destroy Carthage. He killed all the inhabitants, razed every building, sprinkled salt on the ground to prevent husbandry, dedicated the place to the gods of the infernal...
...times one feels that the author has forgotten his theme, as when he lets his characters wander to Florida in the midst of the land boom. The devotion of page after page to the character development of persons not immediately concerened in the story tends to destroy the proportion of the novel and proves to be its major fault...
...Government is that which re-established America's respect for Peru. No assassin's bullet can destroy my work. It is eternal. Should I die, the assassin's own hand will inscribe my name in history...
...submarines" driving toward the metropolis. He handed the chart to Lieut. Haydn P. Roberts, radio engineer, who inserted it in a cylindrical machine. Forty seven seconds later the drawing was reproduced in a receiving device at Mather Field, 75 mi. away, whence a squadron of bombers was sent to destroy the invaders. While the picture was being transmitted, Flyer-Artist Knight conversed with ground officers, elaborated on the scene. Based on a principle akin to telephotography, the radiophoto device was developed by Westinghouse Electric...
...brilliant photograph of a great War play. The story is a pattern loosely and skillfully woven around the lives and characters of certain British officers in a front line sector?their amusements, memories, meals, relations to each other?all unified by the abstract presence of a power bent on destroying them, and which does in the end destroy them. These soldiers are heroic, but with a kind of heroism never before depicted on the screen?a makeshift heroism, concocted in despair as the best way to behave in circumstances which are absurd, insane, horrible. Captain Stanhope is played by Colin...