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Harry Mulford Jewett, president Paige-Detroit Motor Car Co.: "I made a speech to 1,500 of my Jewett and Paige dealers at an elaborate dinner in the grand ballroom of the Book Cadillac Hotel, Detroit. Said I: 'The new Paige is a powerful brute. You can drive it right through hell and you can't make it heat...
...Miss Cavell's death for propaganda purposes arose from the fact that she was the first woman executed by order of a German court martial in Belgium for "recruiting" as opposed to "espionage." Within a few months Allied billboards were o'er-plastered with posters showing a brute-faced German officer commanding a phalanx of soldiers to fire upon a youthful, blooming defiant girl in the costume of a Red Cross nurse. The caption: EDITH CAVELL NEXT...
Seven centuries ago there was a generation of children who, having observed their elders' repeated failure to wrest the Holy Sepulchre from the infidel Saracens by brute force, resorted to the quaint expedient of trudging down across Europe, struggling over the Mediterranean Sea and advancing upon Jerusalem with hands empty of weapons and hearts full of faith. It is not recorded that the Saracen militia were deeply affected by this display, nor that they yielded their stronghold until, some time afterwards, Frederick II ousted them by adroit diplomacy. Nevertheless, the tradition that young people make good auxiliary forces...
...diseases to which their own offspring may be immune. Dr. Brouzet (Sur I'education medecinale des enfants) thought so poorly of human mothers that he wished the state to interfere and keep them from suckling their young lest they communicate immorality and disease. The chemist Van Helmont called milk "brute food" and wanted to substitute for it bread boiled in beer and honey. Substitutes for mother's milk have been made from cow's milk mixed with soft water, lactose ("sugar of milk") and phosphate of lime. This a vigorous newborn child can assimilate. But the frail bambino must have...
...plot, Dr. Gentian nurses a nice insanity to be King of the Floridas, while the passion of his daughter is to be a queen, preferably piratical, with the misbegotten brute who appeals to her inherited taste for coarse-grained erotics. When the hero, young Andrew Beard of New York, arrives on business for his rich father, he is snaffled between plan and counterplan of father and daughter, escaping not without scars on heart and body. In the distances are heard the splashing of tea-chests in Boston harbor, the rattle of musketry at Lexington...