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...Boldest of the witnesses was a small, bent, greying woman. Like a Fury she raged at Herr Badchis, "You ordered my daughter's arrest and thought you could make her talk. When she kept quiet your men strapped her into a chair, an electric chair...
...This is the best punch I've ever drunk." When Prince Potenziani expressed his pleasure at entertaining "the chief magistrate of the greatest city in the world, of that fabulous city of incomparable development in which Anglo-Saxon energy with untiring activity has translated into actual fact the boldest conceptions of human thought ..." Mayor replied, "Prince, if you said what I think you said, I'm grateful." Also the Mayor remarked (as he had done at Venice the week previous) : "They call me the late mayor of New York but you don't notice me showing...
...below, before God above, before the woman he loves. His audacity spells his downfall. Miss Le Gallienne is also audacious. She produces an Ibsen play without a stage director. Autumn Fire, an Irish play and a fine one, is built around the character of a hale, old country gentleman, boldest horseman, keenest hunter, most ardent lover in the county. A too spirited mare breaks the stalwart frame. His own son, his own young bride break the vigorous spirit. These two move with Nature. They love, while the old dictator groans on his death bed, stubbornly believing himself invincible against...
...believe in your God. . . . I do not wish to bring the rancor of religious discussion into politics. . . ." He gave lectures which brought him a vast fortune; he gave his money away. A famous man called his speech on "The Gods" at Cooper Union, N.Y., "the boldest, strongest, most vivid utterance of a century." But thousands of others were displeased with him. He died...
Herr Stresemann has been employing the radio and every possible agency through which the will of the people may be swayed and made evident. Meanwhile political dicerings continued behind the scenes. The boldest guesses dared not predict in what combination the 14 parties in the German Reichstag will line up before the treaties...