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With two companions Leon Trotsky put out in a motorboat from Prinkipo. his island exile home near Istanbul, for a fishing trip. In the Sea of Marmora a squall wrecked the boat on rocky Dog Island, where thousands of Constantinople curs used to be sent to starve. Another fishing party...
Ismael Husseyin stood on that scaffold with the rest of the condemned. While hangmen twisted ropes round his colleagues' necks he suddenly leaped away, fled through the streets followed by whizzing bullets, a dozen yapping curs, and most of Menemen's many men.
The camera's versatility in angles and colors is neglected, but the pictures tell in quiet and graphic prose about the little fishing villages flattened on the edge of the Red Sea; pelicans floating like foam-patches in the nervous water; skinny brown fishermen bringing in their shallow boats, piled...
For weeks through Gastonia, dominated by large cotton mill interests, had swirled passion and prejudice against the strikers. So bitter was this feeling that defense counsel asked Judge Barnhill to move the case elsewhere. As a sample of local sentiment, they offered an editorial in a Gastonia paper: "The blood...
Why get so sarcastic in your review when writing upon Mr. T. Dreiser's book? Did you personally ever try to do a bit of real writing? Your reviews remind me a great deal of the Mexicans. They hate Gringoes like the dickens, but all they really do is snarl...