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...regular Old King Cole. He is plump as a pillow. He has thinning pale-gold hair, with lashes and brows to match, a face all shades of pink, from salmon to sunset, big enough nose, strong chin, mouth with a chronic smile. In ricksha, cutaway or gas mask he looks more like a tire salesman than an Ambassador...
...take oxygen will become sleepy and depressed, or hilarious and pugnacious. At 25,000 feet, he may droop into a pleasant, possibly fatal coma. A pilot flying at 15,000 to 18,000 feet for four or five hours may feel well enough to ignore his cumbersome oxygen mask. But when he lands he may collapse with violent headache, dizziness, nausea, muscular weakness, mental confusion. Chronic altitude sickness may ground a flier for over a month. Only pressure cabins or oxygen masks will forestall the disease. And even with these precautions, warns Dr. Armstrong, "it cannot be considered a safe...
...founded the U. S. and French republics. Durant does not capitalize on that. His treatment of Greek literature is more warmly informative than the Encyclopaedia Britannica, but it is commonplace in taste and no match for the subject. His illustrations are less than adequate (no papyrus, no comic masks, no small pottery) though such selections as the archaic mask of "Agamemnon" (see cut) are fresh and effective. But throughout his big book he does show, with more restraint in analogy-making than could be expected after his previous books, that the history of Greek politics is relevant to the nakedly...
...press interview in which he announced his belief that the War will be ended, soon or late, by a revolution in Germany of the Right, joined in by the German Army. "National Socialism," said Lecturer Duff Cooper, "is a revolutionary force, a form of Bolshevism, and now the outer mask has been dropped. Many Germans, who had been told that they were the world's bulwark against Communism, now see that they have been made the allies of Communism. And it is well to remember that the Right in Germany is strongly religious...
...vast armory of English literature was being mobilized along with the rest of the Empire. In the first week of the war the London Times recommended, for blackout nights, a reperusal of such "lenitive" 19th Century giants as Trollope and Dickens. Publishers adopted slogans like "Always carry your gas mask; always carry a book." The London Library resolved to stay open. Publisher Geoffrey Faber publicly suggested that writing a book was "the most valuable piece of national service which an author can render...