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...floorwalkers spotted the theft, pounced on Rivera. Someone threatened to "take him down in the basement and beat the hell out of him." Lino began frantically biting his captors' hands. A salesgirl fainted. Some 500 Negro customers, thrown into a panic by the commotion, began upsetting counters of goods, yelling, breaking things. An Irish policeman went in, saw he could not quell the hysterical confusion singlehanded, sent for emergency reserves. It was almost twilight before the police had driven the disturbers from the debris-strewn store...
...Will you please take two running jumps and go to hell...
...Against this traitor Venizelos we have invoked the following injuries: the ulcers of Job, the whale of Jonah, the leprosy of Naaman, the bite of Death, the shivering of the dying, the thunderbolt of Hell, and the malediction of God and man. We shall call for the same injuries upon those who at the coming elections shall vote for the Traitor Venizelos, and we shall further pray for their hands to wither and for them to become deaf and blind...
...thesis: even passion has its postscript. Mellors and Lady Chatterley, after the birth of their child, leave England and settle in the French countryside, where they live for a time in idyllic poverty. Eventually Lady Chatterley's husband agrees to give her a divorce, but Mellors' hell-cat wife will not do likewise. In fact, she pursues him abroad, upbraids and bedevils him until he shoots her. Exit Mellors. Lady Chatterley and her child take refuge with Sylvius, a supersensible Frenchman, half philosopher, half farmer. Lady Chatterley is tired of the passionate daily diet she has had with...
...natural moat, 400 miles long and 150 wide, it roughly parallels the Abyssinian border, sinks to 400 feet below sea level, boasts temperatures as high as 156° in the shade. Before Explorer Nesbitt, no white man had ever succeeded in crossing it, though three expeditions had tried. In Hell-Hole of Creation he tells how he and two Italian companions, with a native caravan, traversed the entire length of the Danakil in eventual safety, though only occasional comfort. In spite of the violent title his narrative is straight-forward and quiet. No racketeering travelogger. Author Nesbitt says little more...