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...Cavalry has only 9,919 men, 895 officers in 12 horsed regiments, two mechanized regiments. Its new chief is lively Major General John K. Herr, a grey horseman, onetime top-flight polo player, who hates to smell gasoline, does what he can to brake the trend toward mechanization at the cost of horsed units...
...Franco-Prussian War advertised his products and the Krupp firm became the greatest manufacturer of armaments in the world. Alfred Krupp retired to his castle in the Ruhr Valley in quivering hypochondria, went to bed in a room overlooking the stables, for he was always stimulated by the smell of horses. His son Fritz, while the German Navy grew like a house afire and the family firm got most of the armor plate orders, went to Capri, founded a mock religious order with gold insignia in the form of projectiles, on his doctor's orders lay on his stomach...
...luminous stammer of bodies (eagerly just not each other touch) seeking, some street which easily trickles a brittle fuss of fragile huge humanity. . . . Numb thoughts, kicking in the rivers of our blood, miss by how terrible inches speech-it made you a little dizzy did the world's smell...
Death Is So Fair ranks far below masterpieces of the Irish Civil War like Liam O'Flaherty's The Informer or the stories of Sean O'Faolain. But it has a peculiar, acrid flavor, as harsh as the smell of rifle fire, which stamps Author D'Alton as a novelist of individuality and power. It tells of the war with the Black & Tans-ambushes, traps, the killing of spies and suspected spies-in battles that were more like U. S. gangfights than like civil war. Kilfoyle was a master of such tactics; Considine was horrified...
...through the book Author Haines begins feeding his melodrama all the voltage it will stand. At the climax -a big train wreck-Author Haines throws his switches in time to save his hero & heroine for a wedding, but not soon enough to save his story from the unmistakable frying smell that goes with electrocution...