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...American and English efficiency and self-sacrifice that saved the situation. Giving up their various occupations, business men threw themselves into their task, working from 18 to 20 hours...
...page book is written with characteristic Lloyd Georgian vigor and is full of sonorous metaphor. The Ruhr gets attention. Says he: "If Poincaré is out for reparation, his policy will inevitably fail in comparison with that which he so rashly threw over; but if he is out for trouble it has been a great success and in the future it will be an even greater triumph for his statesmanship. The permanent garrison in the Ruhr has possibilities of mischief which it does not require any special vision to foresee...
...love for his wife. The great days passed-the Forrester fortune evaporated-Captain Forrester, crippled by a fall, spent years in dying-the pride of the house was brought down-yet Marian seemed to face Fate with a light, inflexible courage. She only broke down once, when Frank Ellinger threw her over and married-till Captain Forrester's death. Then (he had been her balance wheel), inscrutably weak as she was inscrutably strong, she lost poise -let her charm stoop pitifully to attract such men as the hard, sly, bumptious Ivy Peters. She passed out of Niel...
Marion Davies, Hearst cinema actress: "An actor in Yolando, my film now in the making, was thrown from a castle window into a moat. His hands caught in his flowing sleeves, he could not swim, he struggled, he was sinking. Instantly I threw him my scarf, but he could not grasp it. He was saved by a brave policeman...
...During the week the following disputes took place on Italian soil and were settled according to the Mussolini method: At Molinella, near Bologna. Twenty-six people were wounded in a fight which took place between the Fascisti and the Communists. It was alleged that the Communists threw three bombs at the Fascist headquarters and at the home of a local Fascist leader. At Campoligure, near Genoa. Thirty persons were wounded in a fight between the Fascisti and opposing forces. The trouble arose because the anti-Fascisti objected to and interfered with the funeral of a local hero, Paolo Santamaria, whose...