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...warlike bombing of civil populations, adding that he had Manchuria in mind. When Sir John Simon made two points? 1) that China and Japan are not legally at war; 2) that it would be senseless to prohibit bombing in peace time?Dr. Yen withdrew his resolution in bitter disgust...
...torture his information out of him, de Bernis picks a fight with him, kills him, just as Sir Henry Morgan's boats sail into the bay. In the dénouement de Bernis turns out to be made of stainless steel, as Priscilla, to Major Sands's disgust, had spotted from the first...
...politics. Politics is no longer a decent profession. . . . When a government has fallen in the estimation of a people so that the finest and strongest people will not take part in it, that government is on the wane. The American Government is menaced by a very real, nation-wide disgust of this kind...
...Milk o' Paradise" is a bit of Penny Pitches' Glastonbury wisdom that fits the odd-lot characters in Author Powys' romance. Glastonbury's broth begins to bubble & boil at the reading of the late Canon William Crow's will. To the disgust of the assembled Crows the old man has left his money to his secretary-valet John Geard, an evangelistic fanatic who can cure old Tittie Petherton's cancer pains by holding her in his arms. The stage is set for the struggle between Philip Crow, the rich industrialist who expected to inherit...
...clairvoyant discovers that his divine powers have some devilish effects. A man commits suicide because of his prognostications; Fedora's handwriting reveals to Sebastian what she really is. With the discovery that he had accused the wrong man of the Bassan robbery, Sebastian throws up his prophesying in disgust. He returns to Agnes, a country girl who has kept loving him in spite of his career, and whom he has gotten with child. Anxiety before the child's birth makes him try his hand at prophecy again?to his horror he foresees a stillborn babe. When all-loving Agnes presents...