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Poet Jeffers unfolds just such a story,* with the high seriousness of a prophetic pantheist. He follows the Rev. Dr. Barclay, a man of 50, from a deserted pulpit southward down the Pacific coast from Monterey. Common sanity is dropping from him like a cloak that he may carry or not. His spirit runs naked to the spirit of the hills, of the "iron wind" on the sea promontories. He will be possessed of a god beyond the old ethic, "good and evil...
Soon epithets rang and adjectives cooed, as MM. les Deputés expounded their grand theme: The Sanctity of Motherhood. General conclusion: that the charge of "conspiracy" was only a detestable cloak of subterfuge under which the agents of a debased gendarmerie had ravished from a hungry infant its proper milk. By tens, and finally by hundreds, the Deputies demanded that the Government order Mme. Montard released. Premier Raymond Poincaré, great War President of France, faced an extremely dubious and trying dilemma. Obviously the woman could not be kept in jail; but the Cabinet had lost much of its prestige when...
...Johns-Manville president is Theodore F. Merseles, 63. He has been, successively and with much success, a railroader, bicycle maker, cloak and suit mail order man. In 1921, when the price slump had dragged Montgomery Ward & Co. (everything by mail, from engagement rings to fox-traps) into a nine million dollar deficit, he was called in as its president. The 1922 balance sheet showed profits of $4,562,607. He revolutionized the buying and inventory control, tripled gross sales in five years (to some 200 millions in 1926), and made record profits of $11,358,498. When he resigned...
...relations with these ladies, Wagner provided the world with one of those astonishing paradoxes by which a brilliant man is enabled to write love letters which in their idiotic banality would have disgraced Daddy Browning, to conduct his indiscretions in a manner of an unfaithful cloak-and-suit drummer, and to make these mediocrities important by virtue of the astounding music into which the chemistry of genius transformed them...
...Crystal loosened my tight little moral cloak to an unshackling wind and pinned it back with something as hard and bright and impersonal as a star...