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...even Georges Rouault knows the 'name of Fifi Vollard's cat, a testy 12-year-old alley torn whose great ambition is to get into the room where the Cézannes are kept. Frustrated in this he generally dashes for the dining room and claws angry gashes in the leather seats of the ponderous Empire furniture. Fifi Vollard does not mind for he has two dining rooms, one to exhibit his furniture and another smaller closet off the kitchen where he is apt to retire and munch raw peaches while would-be purchasers are left alone...
...nothing that Gorky constantly repeats. Write the history of factories and plants. . . ., The football sweater of the shock-brigader, the kerchief md ribbons of a young Communist girL the passing banner of the shock-brigade, the childish poster with its turtle or its steam engine, or the torn canvas trousers-are they not a thousand, thousand times more precious to us than Danton's brown frockcoat, Desmoulins' overturned chair, the Phrygian night cap, the order for arrest signed by the blue hands of Robespierre, the last letter of the Queen, and the faded tri-color cockade, ancient...
...have torn up wild weeds...
...party, armed, who removed the negroes from the escort and sent the sheriff and deputies back to town. The prisoners were stood up next to each other and shot. The firing-squad left shortly, leaving the bodies on the ground; two of the men had been riddled and torn apart with bullets; the other had only three wounds and was able to stumble to a farm-house, where he was later captured. He seems to have owed his remarkable escape to his having fallen beneath his two companions, and been partially protected by their corpses. There was considerable indignation about...
...Dryden, but was told to keep on and encouraged. After a few days strenuous wrestling with his verses the student telephoned the Critic office. He joyously told them that all his difficulties were over; he had solved the problem. No, he could not bring the poem over, he had torn...