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...Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta." ("Destroyed by Teutonic Fury; Restored by American Gifts...
...DESTROYED BY TEUTONIC FURY; RESTORED BY AMERICAN GIFTS" is the way in which most people would translate the Latin sentence, "Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta...
French critics have been exclaiming and declaiming about Author La Mazière. His hero, the Parisian equivalent of a Wall Street protozoan, is made to seem more wistful than the meanest Americano would likely be. An orphan, he suffers an ugly seduction in his youth. His one love affair founders on his poverty before it is launched. His friends are a kindly, resigned fatalist, and a mad painter who drags him to hear opera from the top gallery. His sensitive nature is sickened by the War and after the misery of heroism he experiences peacetime betrayal by crass noncombatants...
...imprudently neglected to salute a Fascist banner in Rome. Since the doctor is 65, he was able to make but slight resistance when a Fascist youth knocked off his hat and another struck him with doubled fist upon the temple. Mrs. Rau, with great presence of mind, shrieked "Americano! We are Americanos! AMERICANO!!" Thus appraised of the nature of their prey, the Fascists let go of Dr. Rau, passed...
...ahead of the boom Frank Gannett was when he made his plans, he alone could say. How long before the most provincial Americano will be thoroughly conscious of Winston-Salem's place in the sun, is also a matter of conjecture. But with a Gannett paper in town, Winston-Salem's light is in no danger of bushel-burial, despite a curious feature of that town which any friend of Mr. Gannett's would not fail to remark should he accompany the publisher down there some day to look things over...