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...plot is swift, kaleidoscopic. Trapper Hero saves Dance-Hall Heroine from a fate worse than Death. Villain, a smooth little thing with a grin nothing can eradicate, admires Hero's prowess in the ensuing free-for-all, goes into partnership with him in the trapping business. Hero is brawny but brainless, is easily tricked by Villain, who runs off with Heroine to wicked Manhattan. When Hero discovers he has been bad, the forest suffers, his rage spares nothing. He sets out in pursuit. Meanwhile Villain's fortunes suffer. He encounters a penny-in-the-slot machine, tries...
...America, equipped with tractors and loans at the bank, may be worse off than Europe's simple peasantry, not thus supplied. The overseas farmer he said, "being entirely on a price basis, cannot live unless he sells at a profit." Bankrupt, he loses his farm through foreclosure, and this fate, warned Dr. Riddell, befell "some 2,000.000 U. S. farmers after the slump...
...develop her musical talents in New York. Mr. Kruger announces that he has accepted a commission in the medical corps, departs for a Southern cantonment, leaving his wife exposed to a handsome artillery officer who shares her taste for music. Several acts later, by an odd topple of Fate's dice. Mr. Kruger finds himself attempting to save the life of the artillery captain by whom, Mr. Kruger has just learned, his wife has had a baby. The artillerist dies. After the War is over Mr. Kruger, himself wounded, comes home and undergoes some rather genuine-looking torture while...
...name of the piece's villain; the glory of the Nightingales comes to a sad end. As the poem opens, middleaged, destitute, half-starved Malory, onetime bacteriologist, now a tramp, is walking country roads towards the town of Sharon, on his way to an act he thinks Fate requires of him. In his pocket is the infinite wealth of a revolver. He is going to kill Nightingale, once his best friend, his onetime rival in love, his onetime benefactor, then his ruin and (he thinks) cause of his wife's death. In the village cemetery Malory stops...
...same futility that has attended all academic discussion of war problems will apparently be the fate of the present optimistic gestures. Italy rattles her sward under the nose of France, who retaliates with ostentatious war games on the Italian border. Germany and Russia too indulge in their share of blustering. From all external appearances, Europe will again be shocked with the news that the cannons are again roaring. The aspect is not a cheerful one, yet it seems inevitable in these times when even disarmament conferences almost...