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Famed "Little Anne Bullitt," who in Moscow kept a cat named Revolutzia while her father was Ambassador there, has now grown up into an almost young lady (see cut), ripe to apprehend the magnificent achievements of French civilization and appreciate the Lucullan dinners of her gourmet father in Paris. Anne was born in Paris...
...ended up working in a herring factory. Less a novel than a family chronicle, it is filled with glowing tributes to the sturdiness, to the unbeatable optimism of the clan, ends with an inspirational scene in which young Silas and his bride think back over the years and apprehend the radiant reality of their faith. Worldly readers may feel that the Crocketts, better endowed with backbone than with acumen, never properly realized that things were rapidly going from bad to worse...
...suspicions. The only elements in the Crippen case which might possibly raise it above the low level of other murders, were: 1) in flight the secretary wore boy's clothes; 2) when detectives on the faster Laurentic overtook the Montrose, wireless was used for the first time to apprehend a fugitive criminal. Taken back to England, the bald, walrus-mustached, unattractive little uxoricide was hanged. The secretary went free...
...mush talks him out of a hustle buggy ride and into mongee." Catholic charity Investigator Minehan found the kindest. Religion has small place in these adolescent tramps' lives; theirs is the tribal deity of Hemingway. Said one of them: "God is guts." The Second Coming they vaguely apprehend is the advent of a militant Messiah. "Every group of boy tramps contains a Communist. Bolshevism is spreading rapidly...
...obtain a little more polish for their cultural veneer, gape dumbly at the exhibit there now on display. So foreign to them is a spirit better constituted to create than to jape, to judge, not jape, to direct, not to drift, to lead, not to lag, that they apprehend only their own failure to understand the inspiring evidence of the German spirit placed before them...