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Much to the disgust of foreign observers, the immediate intentions of Pied Piper Maniu seemed to have been realized at this point. He had not urged his docile horde to do anything. He dared not, because upon the rooftops of Alba Julia were planted machine guns, and quietly massed at strategic points were well-paid troops apparently loyal to the Bratiano regime. In these circumstances, Dr. Maniu told his peasants to wait a bit in Alba Julia and himself sped to Bucharest where he presented their resolution to the Regency.* The regents refused to request Premier Vintila Bratiano...
...Story. Jâli is heir apparent to the kingdom of Karastra. Thirsting for Occidental wisdom, he escapes Asia, arrives impoverished in London, where he shrinks from bustle, rain, cupidity. He sells some jewels, and moves to Claridge's.* Naked heiresses disgust him, aristocratic drawing rooms open to actors and prizefighters amaze. At Cambridge he devours the knowledge which a cultured French friend sorts out for him. When his French friend dies, Jâli mourns him deeply, but ruminates upon the curious Western distaste for death. The East, having learned the desirability of death, celebrates its advent with...
Present Arms is a loud and energetic musical comedy that deals, in an offhand way, with the amorous misadventures of a cub marine who tells his girl that he is captain and an alumnus of Yale University. Tough though he is, the lady believes him. Her disgust, when she learns the truth, is not dissipated until the final curtain...
Closer than David & Jonathan, closer than Manuel & Esteban, were Daisy & Daphne. Closer because their relationship was not that of equals: Daisy admired from the depths of her self-disgust, Daphne tolerated from the fastnesses of her self-confidence. And because Daisy's inferiority complex cowered behind Daphne's blithe assurance, Daphne was bound the closer by protective responsibility for the girl she despised...
Romulus and Remus, who were expelled from Alba with disgust and alarm and who must later have had their eccentricities increased by the diet of acidulous milk with which an undiscriminating wolf supplied them...