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South Africa is a different story. Said a South African in the Washington Legation recently: "Do anything to gold at this time and you let loose a pestilence in South Africa." Almost 400,000 men, most of them natives, are directly engaged in producing gold from the bottomless Rand; and the whole South African economy is geared to gold...
BERLIN--German armies are begged down in the bottomless and of Russia, authorized military spokesmen admitted tonight, at the same time claiming that they needed "only a few firm roads to liquidate what remains of the Red army in Europe...
...many of its correspondences, dreams, and borderland apprehensions of a bottomless past, this book has the gooseflesh resonance of a well-made poem, full of dim, sentient suggestions of a religious fatality. Its whole treatment is somber, muted, ardent. As a confused, cryptic painting-a portrait of a personal absorption rather than a public communication -it is moving. Yet, within its arbitrary framework, it convincingly clarifies nothing about destiny...
...Francis Hyde Bang's biography is a rather docile portrait of a personable, energetic, businessman-of-letters making good through capitalizing a bottomless facility for thin wit. It also evokes a rather sterile era in U.S. cultural history. The merry dinners of Bangs and his circle still echo bloodlessly in Manhattan's Century Club, and their humor, which used to roll the genteel families of this continent in the aisles, still lives palely in a few faculty-censored class annals. Today it seems hard to believe that a whole generation could laugh at both Bangs and Mark Twain...
...Europe's once strongest stock survived the plagues and the Great Fire, and it now turns the worst rage that modern war can wreak into just another trial to be confronted. In confronting it, Londoners have rediscovered their chief racial faculty, once wild, now disciplined: a casual, bottomless courage...