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...eleven children, died late yesterday of leucemia, after an illness of 16 months. Orange, N. J.-Mrs. Hazel Sinonair, 30, died today of leucemia. She had been ill for 20 months and in the hospital for four weeks. She was the third Orange woman to die of the dread disease within a year. Buffalo, N. Y.-Failing to rally after a second blood transfusion, the condition of Mary Lobora-Daldan, 3, who is suffering from leucemia, grew steadily weaker today. These press dispatches of the last four weeks and many another like them concerned the most mysterious of blood diseases...
...Will to Property," "Beauty, impinging on a possessive world," and "the eternal force of Passion." The tragic clash of these three, in its grimness and covert intensity, is compared to Greek tragedy. How cleverly the authoress has argued her parallel may be seen by this sentence: "An instinctive dread, a premonition of danger, seizes the Chorus (the lesser Forsytes) even before the appearance of this strange and unsafe creature (Bosinney). It is perhaps straining a point for the sake of consistency to carry over this symbolical hierarchy into all of Galsworthy's work: the essay manages it with but little...
Twentieth Century Japan fights first and declares war, if at all, afterwards. That is why Russia is in everlasting dread of a flank attack across the Siberian border, an attack which may fall anywhere, anytime. Russia's prime defense is its ability to move up & down the Trans-Siberian. And that rickety road is at present in notoriously bad condition for a major military action.* It can handle only a few thousand troops a day, provision only a small army on active service. But Russia is double-tracking at breakneck speed and, while it does, 200,000 Red troops...
Other defendants at the Reichstag trial, all of them acquitted, were still held in prison by the Hitler State last week while their relatives waited in dread lest they be confronted at any moment with another Nazi surprise fait accompli...
...follow him up his winding stair. Now he writes Words for Music Perhaps. In the old days he certainly would have given the music too. But Yeats, too subtle an artist to have lost all his cunning, can still write memorable verse, though "those dancing days are gone": Nor dread nor hope attend A dying animal; A man awaits his end Dreading and hoping all; Many times he died, Many times rose again. A great man in his pride Confronting murderous men Casts derision upon Supersession of breath; He knows death to the bone- Man has created death...