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...gentlemen rove abroad to dig with native muckers for pieces of old civilizations. The pieces go into museums, where historians patch up history's gaps, where the populace gapes a holiday, where eager young women copy decorations for the gewgaws of applied art. Finders, keepers and users they...
...Hearst press to see if they could detect a change of policy. Perhaps Smith, eager to win, could now tolerate Hearst, at a distance and through an emissary, in return for an "even break" in the Hearst press. Perhaps Smith's friends, without consulting him, were trying to patch up a working agreement, putting it on a party instead of a personal basis. Or perhaps Publisher Hearst, lonely in his demesne, merely wanted to be amused and informed by the knowing japes of Manhattan's official comedian...
...maudlin good. But out of necessity perhaps to H. G. Wells to whom the book is dedicated, Author Gerhardi winds up his loose strands with a tiresome world destruction. Ottercove flies with Vernon Sprott (Arnold Bennett) toward the patch of earth that survives the end of the world, but disintegrates on the way. As Castor & Pollux the two men are immortalized by the glowing ends of their cigars. Ottercove's unborn son and Eva and some of her lovers are chief survivors of the extravaganza...
...Brady. Pope Gregory XVI (1765-1846) created the order in 1831 and put it under the patronage of that first and greater Gregory (c. 540-604)-to reward the civil and military virtues of the subjects of the Papal States. But now, when the Papal domain is only a patch of land at Rome, the knightly requirements have been loosed by the Popes and made applicable to all the adherents of their spiritual hegemony. Nicholas Frederic Brady, Grand Cross Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great does not become, by the investiture, a citizen of the Pope...
Following the Alexandria riots of 1921, when nearly a score of foreigners were killed, and sixty odd injured, England managed to patch up the affair in the 1922 Anglo-Egyptian pact, which terminated the British protectorate undertaken in 1914. From that time until the present, Egypt has been working for absolute independence. A sovereign state, Egypt wished the British restrictions removed, but Britain firmly insisted on her right to guard her communications of Empire and to protect foreigners...