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...random example of what the White Book contains, observers noted a letter telling how down-and-out British subjects have been trained as Communist agitators while being given employment as sailors on Russian merchant ships. The Soviet agent in charge of this subversive activity told in early letters how "choice of the men was carefully made, preference being given to Negroes, Hindus and other oppressed nationals." In later correspondence these "oppressed nationals" were declared to have turned out to be "lazy swine . . . the refuse of the Labor Party . . . slackers and bad workers who drank or left the ships...
...tilt at the Pocket Oxford Dictionary, by Mr. Abbott, begins with a gloriously mixed metaphor and goes right on being funny. It is pleasant to read The Man with a Briar again. He was another of my classmates, at college, and I see be is as full of windy random as over...
...Menshevik Kerensky was present in Petrograd** when there began a curiously leaderless and random series of riots and disorders among the people and local soldiery. Between March 8 and March 12 these leaderless disorders reached such a pitch that the Duma found the Tsarist authority had vanished and set up a Temporary Governing Committee which two days later became the Cabinet of Prince Lvov in which M. Kerensky was Minister of Justice. Next day representatives of the Duma obtained the abdication of the Tsar. Russians were all but stupefied that the Tsarist regime was so rotten at the core...
...complexities of Pirandello's thought are rendered more intricate by the translation. In a probable effort to reproduce the style of his original Mr. Moncrieff has produced an English titled, awkward and difficult, without much excuse for being so. The following is an example, picked absolutely at random; worse could be found...
...that boasts no such imperishable testimonials. Those human things that caused it, his smile and his grave placidity, his honesty and his courage, his unerring appreciation of human values in life as in teaching, are certain to suffer some strange sea-change. Some of us today have random personal memories upon which these legends will be built; the tributes that his ninety-two years of useful life called forth will be food for still others. The something rich and strange that his name will be to future generations in the Yard will grow even more from the personal spirit than...