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History's Bitterest Revenge: to Pigeon-Hole Him as a Rich...
...story, much of which would make good material for Eugene O'Neill at his bitterest, tells of the moral disintegration of Anthony Patch, and his wife Gloria. Anthony is our old friend Amory Blaine, now made for the sake of variety a Harvard man. Whether or not it is because of a change of Alma Mater, he is a little more consistently worthless than his Princeton prototype but otherwise he is the same. A good part of the novel is devoted to analyzing his character but for all this it seems to us that if Mr. Fitzgerald had described...
...third unsupported statement about D'Annunzio is that he is backed only by a small part of the Italian people. The present ministerial crisis in Italy shows that this statement is groundless. Premier Nitti, one of D'Annunzio's bitterest enemies, has fallen; this is a great victory for D'Annunzio, a victory which plainly shows that the majority of the Italians are with D'Annunzio...
...sympathy; to every man who worked to make the season a success, our appreciation for doing his best. Debating has won its place among the truly strenuous diversions, and as feeling is proportionate to the intensity of the effort, a defeat and a victory bring a mingling of the bitterest and the sweetest. We should not grieve too much for a championship that might have been: if this year's efforts have failed to bring us more than divided honors, they have at least accomplished a revival of general interest in the sport...
...himself. His work contains much honor and pathos but is written in such difficult language that it is little known. Last came Sir David Lindsay who, during his life was the most popular poet in Scotland. He was a reformer in the form of a poet. He wrote the bitterest satires and invectives against the political and social evils of his time and exercised a great influence upon the Cort...