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...priest confessed to knowledge of electricity, to having caused tears to flow from the Blessed Virgin's eyes by an electrical device, to having received 12,000 gold rubles during the "heavy years...
...June 21, 1919, the German fleet lay at anchor in Scapa Flow. Its pride had long since been broken and it lay captive with only skeleton crews of Germans aboard. In accordance with a preconcerted plan, the Germans opened the sea cocks, let their High Seas Fleet sink to the bottom. There were some 74 ships at anchor at the time and many of them sank before the British could beach them...
...love which lasts, even when Victor deserts her for a younger woman, and glows triumphant when he returns to her, disillusioned, blind. At times the unusual form of its telling seems to create a strained, disjointed effect, with false emphasis. But for the most part, the lines flow with vivid, restrained and often impassioned beauty...
...RIGHT PLACE−C. E. Montague−Doubleday, Page & Co. ($2.50). Mr. Montague, in "holiday humor," here lets flow delicious cataracts of amenities, which must have been dammed up within him for many years. Whatever delights him−from the discovery of a glassy, Swiss lake to the discussion of "faces and fortunes of cities"−is in The Right Place, the reading of which is in itself a holiday. Borrowing the Montague imagination, one experiences the cream of excursions. It is not, however, a book of travels; it is a series of enchanting essays wherein remembered places served...
...until 1920 was much accomplished owing to the greater need for apparatus and divers at Scapa Flow. By that time the Laurentic had broken up and proved a mass of tangled ironwork. During 1920 only eight bars of bullion were recovered...