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Trials. On Aug. 8 at Riom, a quaint, forgotten town in Auvergne with grass-grown streets and stately derelict mansions, a new Supreme Court of Justice created by a Petain decree will convene "to search for and judge ... all those . . . who have during an undefined time committed crimes or misdemeanors or betrayed duties in their charge by acts that led to the passage from the state of peace to a state of war . . . and by acts which thereafter aggravated the consequences of the situation thus created." The Court, composed of five prominent French jurists, an admiral and a general...
...that time, however, the British Government was beginning to take a hand in British industry with a view to its social and military uses. Sir William was asked to locate his mill at Ebbw Vale in South Wales, a derelict steel'district where new jobs were acutely needed. Partly because of the higher cost of building at Ebbw Vale, and partly because of the 1938 recession, Richard Thomas & Co.'s funds ran out two years ago, before the mill was ready. Sir William accepted a ?6,000,000 loan from the Bank of England. In return for this...
...basement clinic at Our Lady of Good Help he brought many another derelict...
...sport and obsessive ideas: were not other countries keeping her in perpetual unrest, she would in a couple of generations be converted to pederasty. . . ." Most of all he deplores what he sees in Ingeborg Torsen, a fine young woman who, thanks to her feminist education, has become a sexual derelict, disconsolately out for what she can get. She manages inadvertently to cause a murder; she is bound, for a while, to a dismal little actor who lives off her. Subtly, she is interested in the old man; uneasily, he is drawn to her. During the next year...
When Artist Hoffman dislikes one of his pictures, he paints another over it. Failures lurk behind most of his canvases. Thus hidden is the painting that first brought him fame-Rubbish, which showed a derelict sitting next to an ashcan. "When I do a bad thing," he says, "I want to be the first one to know about it and the first one to destroy it. I can paint, I know I can paint...