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...boats in southern waters in hopes of garbage, and whaling ships used to vary the monotony of long voyages by endeavoring to catch the huge fish. Man-eating sharks sixty feet in length not being uncommon, the whalers sometimes were forced to use, extra anchors as hooks. The cruelest method of catching of all is reported in the Edinburgh Observer...
...role in Manhattan in 1878, could have asked for more. Actor Evans, a mellowed Britisher, trained for his latest royal part as Napoleon in St. Helena and the Dauphin in Katharine Cornell's Saint Joan. The purple sits well on him as he impersonates one of the vainest, cruelest, weakest monarchs the English ever had to tolerate. Sensitive at all times, Actor Evans rises to his greatest dramatic heights when Richard returns from Ireland to "this precious stone set in the silver sea . . . this England" to make the melancholy discovery that he has all but lost his sceptre...
Orator Howard is credited with having written many a florid passage in the sermons of the late "Billy" Sunday, orated himself like this: "The speakeasy is the most stupendous, titanic, colossal, calamitous, crimson, conscienceless, pitiless and cataclysmic criminal of the ages. It is the vilest of villains, the cruelest of all criminals, the loudest of all liars, the blackest of all blackguards, the most treasonable of all traitors, the most terrible of all tyrants since the world was born." In Rochester alone Reformer Howard delivered 3.500 speeches and sermons, boasted that he accepted pay for but one. With the proceeds...
...would never sanction this country indulging in a blockade of that kind unless assured of the sympathetic support at least of those three great neutral countries. It would surely be the bitterest and cruelest irony of history if the League, in attempting to enforce peace in some localized area, only succeeded in setting fire to the world, starting a war which might run from Pole to Pole...
...Italo-Ethiopian dispute is not a thing we can regard as just another incident. There is a new spirit abroad in the world today. I believe that the world is entering a long, and if we must judge from what has gone before, one of the bloodiest and cruelest periods it has ever known...