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Author Dodge has based her romantic tale on a rubble foundation of fact. Claverhouse was a real character who, she thinks, has been handled over roughly by historians. As raw material for the cinema, Graham of Claverhouse is magnificent stuff. As a book, it is cloak-&-sword romance, Grade...
...pleasant man in Washington, with a pleasant smile," remarked Virginia's Carter Glass at a dinner of the Southern Society of New York in Manhattan last week, "once called me an unreconstructed rebel." The pleasant man, said Senator Glass, dropping the cloak of implication, was Franklin Roosevelt. Wrapping the light garment about him once more, the peppery little old Democrat then served notice that his campaign truce with the New Deal was over by enlarging as follows on an anecdote of a famed Confederate general: "Jube Early was an unreconstructed rebel to the day of his death. He used...
Edgar Degas was practically blind the last years of his life, painted little after 1900. Honored by the world but avoiding it, he stalked about Montmartre in a long black circular cloak, on interminable walks that seemed to aid his kidney trouble. He died Sept...
...lengths of the famed Crown Jewels which his ancestor Colonel Thomas Blood, son of a well-to-do Irish blacksmith, succeeded in stealing from the Tower of London in 1671. With the help of two accomplices Colonel Blood overpowered the Keeper of the Regalia, hid the crown under his cloak. One of his friends seized the sceptre while the other stuffed the orb into his breeches. Before they had gone far the thieves were captured. Blood refused to confess to anyone but King Charles II. Charles not only pardoned Blood but gave him back his estates which had been confiscated...
...once the cloak of academic dignity is ripped from Military Science I the result is strange. There is a dash of mathematics, in which errors of 30 per cent aren't considered at all. There is a hint of a rule of thumb psychology in the lectures on "leadership" and "discipline." There are long weeks spent in memorizing the names of the parts of out-of-date cannon and the labels of the bags of powder. There are detailed descriptions on the workings of everything from obsolete machine guns to automobiles...