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...back on their feet again. At the last, Death comes to apoplectic H. B. Lockhart. Significance. The volume has as much literary style as a good sales letter. But action is plentiful and the book 'is informative. It will probably furnish to younger businessmen the inspiration that its jacket advertises. Even as a relaxative its merit is far above most fiction of the idly amorous type. Also, it is probably authentic. (The country's leading stove works are now in combine.) That Villain Lockhart was founded on fact, however, is doubtful. His tactics are consistently those...
Later 5,000 adolescents of both sexes, their leader clad in the bright green jacket and corduroy breeches of the "German Youth Movement," assembled in their Berlin hall where neither smoking nor drinking is allowed, and voted by acclaim a resolution condemning the Schund und Schmutz bill as "a blow to German Kultur...
...Some began to buy for investment, for he proved how the values of precious stones mount. His son Michael had even a finer genius for matching jewels. Mrs. McKinley, wife of the one time President, loved to come to their store. She would be dressed in a slim-waisted jacket, with leg-of-mutton sleeves, an amiable gentlewoman whom Michael adored. One day she gave him a carnation. He wanted to pin it to his father's lapel, but Jacob told him to take it home, press it. When the boy left the store, he discovered that...
...fully. And it is surprising to read this book and reflect that it was written by an old man, a professional politician; even in translation it is a sweeping, rhythmic picture. American politicians must be a different breed; young and vigorous, they neither think nor write so well. The jacket hints that the whole book may be a spiritual biography of Clemenceau himself--which is something for the Tiger and no one else to decide. And, however that may be, the situation in Greece during the Macedonian invasions, the magnificence of Demosthenes' stand against the forces of petty politics, corruption...
...novel of youth's illusions and disillusions of its gaieties, its follies, its crudities, its beauties. It is a creditible and responsible work."--N. Y. Times Book Review. Attractive binding and jacket, suitable for a gift...