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Feud. Yachtsman Walter Marks is a Member of Parliament of the Prime Minister's own party (Nationalist). Since the elections of last year the Government has had only the barest majority. Every vote has been vital. As a matter of course Nationalist Yachtsman Marks has voted with his party leader, Nationalist Bruce. But recently there have been ominous rumors that he had entered into a secret understanding with the Prime Minister's bitterest personal enemy, a third Nationalist, onetime (1915-23) Prime Minister William Morris Hughes...
...present outrage are such as to awaken even more intense sympathy. The facts that the victim was accompanied by his family, was a full fifteen miles from the border, and possessed not a trace of alcohol in the car, all combine to awaken popular recognition of an affair, the barest facts of which are hideous...
...would-be Bohemian in a material way, but by all civilization in a much more searching fashion. The Guild proved a medium for expressing among others one answer several years ago, "R. U. R."--that while science and the machine could not totally obliterate humanity, yet only on the barest thread of some intangible essence hung the existence of civilization, a thread totally outside of the scope of science. Others have given vent to the fantastic and emotional cry "Back to Nature"--and schools of education have in a few instances carried this into practice...
Broken in spirit and body, Michel became at last "liberé" (fantastic name for those wretches who survive imprisonment, but, exiled for years to come, must report periodically to the Guiana authorities). Meanwhile there was the listless scramble for barest necessities of existence. Few as these were after prison fare, the possibilities of work were fewer still, since employers preferred gangs of supervised prisoners available at minimum wage. Michel, marveled at his long-lost joie de vivre, remembered his ambitions, and the oath that never would he degenerate to a contemptible liberé, crouched on his empty barrow awaiting...
...Barest - GREENWICH VILLAGE FOLLIES...