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Pius IX was a visionary. To him came voices and often he expected divine wrath to crush the enemies he himself could not subdue. He could be suave, diplomatic, dignified. But the Kings and Emperors of Europe, like gnats, pestered him till he seemed no more the Vicar of God, but a petty, earthly prince whose lands the Kings wanted?...
...little sleepy words of endearment, like a bird twittering on its nightly perch. But his heart was wakeful and easily scared? it started like a bird that flies up. . . ." The horror of his unconfessed murder haunted him, but he dared not confess to priest or pauper, lest further disgrace crush delicate Ingunn. She chafed under his kindness, marveled that he could forgive her former infidelity, suspected him of retaliating in kind. This finally the good SIGRID UNDSET She did Nobel work at night. man did. Immediately he rued it, lavished yearly more tenderness upon his ailing wife, while she?...
...peasants and Kulaks. Having taxed the town capitalist out of existence, they would do the same with the rural "Fist." Against this policy the Peasant President of Russia stands firm, patient and unalterable. Recently he said: "The Government of the Soviet Union must not and does not aim to crush the richer peasants, but simply to stop their undue aggrandizement at the expense of their poorer brethren...
...scene would be too much for him. Ragged banners still flew in Albany, their legends, "Smith for President," mocked and cancelled by wind and sleet. Yet the Albanians were out to meet him in cheering, bomb-bursting thousands. Mayor John Boyd Thacher insisted on taking his arm through the crush, just as on triumphal occasions when the Brown Derby used to return as Governor-re-elect. Now he was President-reject...
...sank returns began coming in. The Hoover secretaries darted hither and yon with slips of paper, chalk and chalk-erasers, like marker boys in a brokerage office. Mr. Hoover worked with them for a while, then sat in the front row of chairs, smoking a pipe. The buzzing crush of people seemed to bother him. He went into his study. Telephone calls were incessant. He discouraged premature congratulations, wandering between living room and study...