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...banging away at the town as they floated down, but stopped when there was no Ecuadorian counter fire. Peruvian troops moved easily across the flat land between the coast and Piedras. In a miniature Blitz they burned farms, confiscated crops, looted houses even of radio sets and bric-a-brac. Several thousand Ecuadorian refugees fled northward to Guayaquil and other cities by foot, mule, boat, boxcar-many went through muddy, snake-infested jungle strips along the coast...
...prudence"-was the consulship at Damascus . . . "the dream of my childhood ... I am to live amongst the Bedawin Arab chiefs; I shall smell the desert air; I shall have tents, horses, weapons, and be free. . . ." They arrived with a museum load of African, South American and Indian bric-a-brac and five dogs-to which they soon added twelve horses, three goats, a camel, a snow-white donkey, a pet lamb and a baby panther (which the horrified peasants poisoned...
...screen writer. In a neatly organized yarn about a little Jew named Sammy Click, who soars from a $12-a-week office boy on a Manhattan daily to head of a studio before he is 30, Budd Schulberg gathers in the stray and unconnected bric-a-brac which forms the composite Hollywood, fits it into a whole like a mammoth jigsaw puzzle...
...compelled to play a married man, kiss a woman, have any children. A bedside-bottle hypochondriac, he is nervous about his diet, which is rigidly supervised by his 82-year-old mother, who accompanies him almost everywhere. Feverishly interested in antiques, Horton has acquired all kinds of bric-a-brac on his barnstorming. He ships his finds back to "Belleigh Acres," his estate on the edge of Hollywood, to which it is said he adds a room every time he makes a picture. The estate includes a ten-room doghouse, an impressive community barn, the inevitable swimming pool. Horton never...
Moralists liked to recall after his disgrace the unhealthy tendencies Oscar already showed at Oxford-his sermon-inspiring crack: "Would that I could live up to my blue china;" his incense-burning and precious bric-a-brac, decadent paintings, rhapsodies in verse to Actress Lily Langtry, his declaration that "I want to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world." What was less frequently recalled was that he was the pet of Slade Professor John Ruskin and of the great Walter Pater, who was once so overcome by his protege's beautiful talk...