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Follows matter enough for a dozen penny dreadfuls, threepenny thrillers: a fight with sledgehammer and dirk in the lurid shadows of a gypsy fire-Claire's body gleaming white but for the dark cords that bind her ankles and wrists; a struggle in the dank blackness of a railway tunnel which a gang of Claire's suitors blockade at one end, while others sneak in opposite: "Kill the man, but save the wench! . . ."A relic of civilized scruple holds Martin from killing a hairy giant furnaceman, because he has sprawled over the tracks and technically is down...
...furious dissensions among Indian politicians as to whether this offer should be accepted. Significant loomed a recent statement by the great Indian barrister Pundit Molital Nehru, executive leader of the Swaraj (NonCooperation Party). Wrote he: "I should prefer forced slavery to being a party to forging the chains to bind me. In this Commission there is nothing but a machine to forge the chains...
...recipe for making an audience enjoy itself is to try to keep human, and to bind humor with interest. I don't believe in any of these wild-eyed ideas of the drama...
...Simpson case, a suicide, by the boy twin; in both books there is a character called Tony. The differences, mainly differences in treatment, are more important and less conspicuous. Author Simpson nearly cracks a harder nut than the one Author Kennedy so easily pried apart. The ties that bind her twins are not such simple ones of sympathy and affection; her tragedy, confused with fortune tellers, horoscopes, telepathic visions is a more subtle, more bitter but less potent mixture...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer [Winston Spencer Churchill], since the breakdown of the Conference, has stated specifically: 'Therefore we are unable now-and I hope at all future times-to international embody in a solemn international agreement any words which would bind us to the principle of mathematical parity in naval strength...