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...second-class promenade of the Rajputana a little enclosure was rigged up for the distinguished traveler. There, to the great interest of homing Britons, he began to cook, spin, pray. Occasionally he rose to place a skinny, brown benediction on the head of some surprised English child...
...they walked to the front of the auto, its emergency brake slipped; it started backward toward the edge of a 200-ft. canyon. Mr. & Mrs. Tarpley held on hard, were dragged to the canyon, were forced to let go, saw the car careen and spin downward, killing Marjorie Tarpley, only bruising Catherine...
Author Daniel-Rops thinks Robert Balfour Stevenson did more than spin a yarn and preach a sermon when he wrote Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He thinks Stevenson indicated a psychological truth which he falsified into melodrama. The split personalities in these four stories are due not to drugs but to circumstance; the stories are dramatic but no fairy tales...
...more effectively by concentrating on that one thing. It means sacrificing nine tenths of what constitutes college life at present, including things which may be as valuable as purely mental growth, but it is the best way to produce that rara avis, a really strong intellect, ready to "spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind...
Plainly Chinese peasants did not spin all this organization out of their own heads. Most brains, much money are provided by Moscow's Third International. Brawn is easily picked up among China's thousands of out-of-work soldiers (China is "at peace" this spring, for the first time in ten years has no formal civil war going). Peasant support for the Red bandit forces has been won by propaganda, bribes even by putting firearms in peasant hands...