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...days his poems were notable for their uprightness; he considered the age poisoned by the licentiousness of Byron and Shelley, and in later years was said to have hurled a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass into the fire. But he was soon to pipe a fiercer tune. Sacrificing his personal ambition to the cause of Liberty, he "knocked Pegasus on the head, as a tanner does his bark-mill donkey, when he is past service," and at 25 became an Abolitionist. Instead of eulogies from the critics he got rotten eggs and catcalls, more than once...
...double cross roads of the world." Here is the locale, motif, and gospel of "42nd Street," intense, jazz-maddened moving picture of backstage life, now at the Metropolitan Theatre. The show is another "Broadway Melody" without as many song hits, perhaps, but certainly with better acting, ballet, and fiercer tempo...
...Thus gold mines which a few years ago were just able to break even are now operating at a profit, ones which were just profitable are now turning in tremendous profits. The effect of this has been that Gold Fever, always smoldering in the mind of man, has flamed fiercer than ever. One evidence of this is seen on the stock exchanges. Alaska Juneau (the big Treadwell Mine), Dome Mines (of which Broker Jules Semon Bache is president), Mclntyre-Porcupine, Homestake, Tech-Hughes, are all selling near or above their 1930 highs. Another evidence of the fever is seen wherever...
...group of countries for nearly a thousand years. That combine distantly approached world government, which in past ages meant the government of Central and Southern Europe with the adjacent portions of Northern Africa and Western Asia. Yet the outcome of all, the efforts of European unification was fiercer animosities, more terrible wars and the subdivision of large countries into smaller and hostile units...
...Fiercer the wind. At 150 m.p.h. it sounded thin and high.* It sucked at the plane, whirled her backwards for half a mile. The three men, planeless, could only wait wet and miserable for rescue. It came...