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...louse may be the greatest of war's horrors," the editorial opened. "By the disgust that it produces, by the sleeplessness that results from it, by the ubiquity of the skin lesions, and by the mortal disease [typhus fever] that it carries in its bite, it surpasses any. Because it is unremitting, the soldier dreads it more than artillery fire. . . . From the slow crawl of the louse over his body there is no respite. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow it will...
...play based completely on the evil in human nature, a story of degeneration in a Southern family bent only on money and the power it brings. Like those who have slammed the covers of Baudclaire, many will claim that a play can not be great and still disgust by its ugliness. Its attraction is the attraction of evil. Its entertainment is that of waiting and hoping for good. And therein is the great artistry of Miss Hellman. "The Little Foxes" is brutal and overpowering. It forces submission. Only as the first shock wears off and the nasty details fade away...
...wrote a five-act play-lost-which he dedicated to his own soul. (His father, reading that in bed one night, bawled "Holy Paul!") Passing the Arc de Triomphe, Valery Larbaud asked him how long he thought the Eternal Flame would burn. "Until the Unknown Soldier gets up in disgust and blows...
...gained in moral stature last week by giving Cuba one of the few fairly conducted elections it has ever had. That his reward was defeat at the polls was due, they thought, not so much to dislike of the genial Dictator as to an unreasoning eruption of Cuban disgust at hard times and a tendency to blame these on the Government...
...caution, eventually warned his readers: "Beneath the veneering of scholarly polish lies the coiled serpent of unscrupulous ambition." After rich Judge Robert Worth Bingham bought the paper in 1918 and supported the League of Nations (". . . inevitably Woodrow Wilson would be caught by such a whimsy . . .") Marse Henry quit in disgust. He died a few years later...