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Last week, now a hale 90 and almost recovered from his chagrin, Walter Smith attended a large reception in South Africa's Orange Free State. An amiable gentleman soon singled him out for conversation. It was brief but pleasant, and afterwards Mr. Smith turned back to his old friend Mr. Fowkes. "Who was that gentleman?" he asked...
Road Hog. In Baekke, Denmark, a befuddled autoist honked impatiently behind an auto wrecker that hogged the road for 12½ miles, later protested angrily to the salvage company, learned to his chagrin that he was the drunk the wrecker had been towing home...
Even when his Chouans and La Peau de Chagrin made him an outstanding figure in French literature, he continued-like a married woman secretly visiting a maison de rendezvous to earn some pin-money-to frequent his former low haunts and degrade the famous Honoré de Balzac to the status of a cheap hack. . . ." In fact, Zweig does a better job of explaining the hack in Balzac than he does in explaining his greatness...
...escaped by charging headlong into his would-be captors. Often wounded and reported dead, he always turned up again more daring and dangerous than before. His name became "a synonym in the South for brave deeds and daring escapades, a byword in the North for fear and hatred and chagrin...
...read with amusement and chagrin the menu which was to be served to all soldiers on Christmas day (TIME, Dec. 27). . . . "Subject to no change except for the most extreme fortunes of battle." To the best of my knowledge, no battle was being fought on or near Fort Benning...