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...learned that a politician must be ready to praise anybody, dead or alive, on a moment's notice, felt his good nature had been imposed upon. The New York World spoke of a "sleazy kind of fawning" by public men, was pleased "to see it trip its toe and come sprawling on its face...
...000th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth rolls round ( 1634 years hence) most Anglo-Saxons may have all but forgotten him, though Germans will surely stage tremendous demonstrations for "Unser Shakespeare."† But Italy does not have to wait to celebrate the 2,000th birthday of her bard. From toe to top of the boot-shaped Peninsula, last week, prefects of provinces and podestas (mayors) proclaimed the beginning of "six months of tribute" to Virgil...
...time of the Lateran Treaties a favorite German cartoon showed Signer Benito Mussolini on his knees before Pope Pius XI exclaiming, while he suited the action to the word, "I kiss your toe, Papa...
...followed a muffled explosion below. The rest, wrapped in burlap to conceal the charred mutilation or gas-choked contortions of their faces, were dead. Of them, 34 were Mexicans, 15 were Negroes. The bodies were exhibited in improvised morgues. Many were unidentifiable. One was identified by a broken toe...
...Switzerland he spent a week with Voltaire; in Berlin he was offered a mastership in a boys' school by Frederick the Great. When he was finally allowed to return to Venice, his money gone and credit dwindling, he became a spy for the Inquisition; congenitally unable to toe the line, he got into hot water with his holy employers and had to leave Venice once more. Thence his decline was rapid: still a spy (though now on a commission basis, no longer salaried), he fell even lower, and died an obscure literary hack, "prolific writer of forgotten novels, libellous...