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...common sense. When he refuses to marry her, on the ground that the scandal of being her husband would make him ridiculous, she finds herself able to laugh as his enemies force him to drink their health in castor oil. Relieved of her hero, she takes on an earlier flame, whose sense of humor more nearly flatters hers...
...However, all such ephemeral and frivolous activities were merely the preparation, the ground work, for what was to come. Just as there must be a period of dry toll for every artist, so these months of drudgery were a flame which was to transform our dress into steel, and weld the metal into a tool, which, though worthless in itself, could act as an instrument through which might be transmitted that most glorious of clarion calls against intolerance, bigotry and injustice, that ringing, heartfelt appeal for liberty, that supreme endeavor of the human mind to pierce the outer encircling darkness...
...Pilot Holbrook. Copilot Barron, Stewardess Huckeby & all four passengers. Airline officials deduced that Pilot Holbrook had turned westward to skirt a storm area. Squeezed down by the thick blanket of clouds above, the plane had torn an Soft. swath through the treetops, crashed to earth in a blaze of flame. One body, flung clear of the wreckage, was found with hands snapped off at the wrist...
...would offer to make no move to increase its present naval ratio and would officially recognize the neutrality of the Philippines if and when freed by the U. S. in return for: 1) Revision of the U. S. ban on Japanese immigration. (Such revision would kindle California into political flame hotter than any which burned last week at Hakodate...
...there is a very widespread recognition of the fact that such a revision would be desirable and should be made, and the initiative to bring about that end originates in California. There would be some opposition, of course, but not such as would kindle California into any hot political flame...