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...unsentimental Austrian friend once said of Alfonso: "When the door of this room opens behind me, I need not turn round to see whether it is the King. I know it instantly by the sudden, strange feeling of his strong and very royal personality." Alfonso XIII had been born a king, six months after the death of his father in 1885. When he took over power from a regency on his 16th birthday he had already learned how to feel and behave as a king. He never felt or behaved any other...
...modern steam-heated life has dulled the senses; scholars today come not only from Cambridge and vicinity but also from Nebraska and Indo-China. Strangely enough, it is difficult for a Middle Westerner gazing with deep foreboding at the ghastly gray pile before him to know with a sudden, inner conviction that Matthews is Matthews...
...movement would die out shortly. The bolsheviks lasted and Karpovitch, by remaining in this country, became an exile. During the next few years he lectured and translated where ever he could, still hoping to go back. He was living in New York without any special prospects, when something as sudden as had been the chance meeting with Bekmeteff happened to him. Archibald Coolidge, whom he had befriended at the Paris Peace Conference, asked him to come to Harvard and teach a course in Russian history which was being introduced into the curriculum. Professor Lord, who was originally to have given...
...your confidence in us. Give us your faith and your blessing, and under Providence all will be well. We shall not fail or falter. We shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish...
...come to the moody conclusion that the U. S. is a violent, lawless, desperate land, with a mighty black record compared to other nations. With this belief foreigners have been prompt to agree. But to many a reader of Valtin's real-life thriller, it came with a sudden shock of realization that other nations have their mad dogs too. Compared to them, such U. S. gangsters as Al Capone are very small change...