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Nick-a-Jack Cave, near Shellmound, Tenn., is a long black involved passage, coiled, like an intestine, under a pot-bellied mountain. Into it last week crawled one Lawrence S. Ashley, geologist, cave-guide. Clambering up the entrance to a secret tunnel which he had discovered, Explorer Ashley heard a great echoing roar as a landslide filled his return to the mouth. After that he wandered for six days, drank the water of a little ebony river, beat away the attacks of two small, ferocious and invisible animals, peered at rough, curious arches that swung and loomed in the waving...
...commonplaces, none is more spectacular than calling the U. S. a "melting pot." The Noyes wrapping for this household article is "new united Europe." He defends the U. S. delay in entering the War by picturing U. S. polyglot population as a sturdy band of folk collectively dismayed and none too impressed by the quarrels of their stay-behind cousins back in Europe. He soothes Revolutionary rancor by embracing Washington, Franklin, Hancock, et al., as Englishmen and even appeals to the Empire spirit of Britons by revealing a bevy of immigrant children singing "My Country "Tis of Thee...
Balzac was a cross between a babbitt and a stroke of lightning. Above his pudgy face, lighted by a bulbous nose, his brain was a melting pot for furious fancies. It fumed with a thousand energetic inspirations which varied from running a printing press to writing the Comedie Humaine. Everything he did was characterized by a gigantic and exaggerated gusto. At dinner with George Sand "three bottles had been emptied. He pointed to them: 'We are not drinking!' After they had consumed six dozen oysters, he pointed to the shells: 'What's wrong with you all tonight? Does nobody feel...
...fleecing the wicked rich to invest the righteous poor. An angel-faced cardsharp, he blandly deals his opponents four nines, a flush, a straight, a full house, only to stagger the crowd by slapping down a royal straight flush for his own account, thus taking the largest poker pot ever staked in that town. With the proceeds he raises a mortgage, facilitates a wedding, stores up treasure in Heaven. Then he ambles into a box car and shuffles off to other good crookedness. Jean Hersholt makes him an engaging...
...Author will technically be come a member of the older generation when she reaches her 30th birthday next year. At that time she will be able to remember seven books written, of which four-The Pot Boils, The Pitiful Wife, Three Kingdoms and now, The Lovely Ship are inferior to little that the last decade has produced. She would be justified in feeling that her education in London University, her journalistic and advertising preliminaries, have molded talent to a secure success...