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...Spain, bereft of the empire he conquered, requests the remains of the hero. But this takes the story into the realms of absurdity and intrigue, in the first place, it is not at all certain where Cortex was buried. In the second place, Mexico, for sentimental reason as well as others, does not wish to give him up; lastly it is claimed that the gentleman was not a Spaniard but an Italian. The last claim brings the Italian nobility on the stage...
...scaffold, of Arthur Lomax. The colored glasses he bought in Egypt so marvelously altered the aspect of life that he married Miss Whitaker, murdered his yachtsman host, Bellamy, and left Bellamy's money to Artivale, the scientist of the cruise-all with the loftiest of motives. In court, bereft of the illusive spectacles, normal Arthur Lomax could quite understand the jury's incredulity. His was the tragedy of the man who made believe and had his dream come true...
From the docks, he drove straightway to a large hotel. At this point, enthusiastic journalists, bereft of all reason, had multiplied his fortune, exaggerated his power, invented many things. They could not decide whether the mining magnate of South America had taken seven or nine rooms at his hotel, half a floor or a whole floor- at any rate he stayed at a hotel...
...cried out in Buffalo: "Look at the Pacific!" Begging the world not to forget the late War, "the 10,000,000 soldiers who died in it, the 13,000,000 civilians who perished because of it, the 5,000,000 widows who survive it, the 9,000,000 orphans bereft through it, the 10,000,000 refugees who fled destitute before it," the passionate Baptist orator asseverated that "at any moment some wild-eyed militarist across the Pacific ... or some hysterical session of the Senate here may drop a spark into that powder barrel" which would disastrously involve "our sons...
...setting for E. J. Ballantine, who speaks the lines of the Mariner with beauty, fine understanding and variety, giving a handsomely sustained performance that saves his part from becoming the monologue of a religious exhorter. Good lighting effects enhance the kaleidoscopic, episodic nature of the action in this novelty bereft...