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Inside are coral gardens, reefs and jutting shelves to protect smaller fish from their predatory neighbors. Already Marine Studios boasts the only porpoises and manta rays in captivity, sawfish, penguins, barracuda, devil fish, turtles, etc. Eventually it hopes to have virtually everything from jellyfish to man-eating sharks...
...Minor devil is James Arthur Currigan Luckypenny, middle-aged accountant in a big London munitions firm, bored by office routine, crazy for money and the world's fleshpots. Big devil is Munitions Tycoon Cornelius Lamsden, fiendish rhapsodizer on the worthlessness of mankind and the profit and beauty in killing with Lamsden munitions, who sends Luckypenny to Italy on a confidential mission, makes him his righthand man. By the time the double-crossing complications of the plot have lured Luckypenny to his end, Author Marshall's sermon has long since turned silly, a farce which means to be horrible...
...game of war it is customary for combatants to assert that their own plays are God-guided, that the opposition's quarterback is the Devil. Last week, when diabolical forces of nature-rains & flood -washed out those of man in central China, the ground was no sooner covered with muddy water than the air was filled with mutual recriminations...
...laughing. The nice thing about Nobody's laughter, and the first thing most readers will like about Cummings' poetry, is that it carries no offense, even when directed at close relations: my uncle Daniel fought in the civil war band and can play the triangle like the devil...
...college man. In desperation, the Vagabond takes a deep breath, flings off the covers, flails his arms wildly, skids on the rug, reverses his field beautifully, and slams the door behind him gratefully. Outside, he quiets his throbbing pulse and takes careful inventory. Unscathed. The little devil never laid a stinger on him. He finished his sleep uncomfortably on the sofa...