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...diluted varnish spread over the Oriental and Roman worlds, he sees the virtual end of the one manner of life that might, if it had stayed on its feet, have been the salvation of the world. Demosthenes is Prometheus borne down by Chaos and Old Night; and only flick-ford's book is the chapter on "The Destroyer" where he assesses Darwin's work in its relation to what the world thinks and does now and may think and do in the future. The research which absorbed his life, the obsession with hypothesis and demonstration that robbed him of everything...
...morning down Washington's broad, smug streets glide sleek gleaming Rolls-Royces, lean sport cars, great grey-lined limousines. Liveried chauffeurs pull up gracefully in front of buildings gay or sombre with grey, blue, green, yellow, black, purple, red-flags of varied designs. Out step pompous diplomats, flick imaginary dust from immaculate morning coats, stride self-conciously up their embassy walks with top-hats a-glinting in the morning sun. Ah!-to be a diplomat! Last week Don Juan Riano y Gayangos, dean* of all Washington diplomats, Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Most Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII...
Lumber. William Alfred Pickering of Pickering, La., and Kansas City, Mo., let a generation flick by and last week signed another Pickering company charter-for the newly created $32,000,000 Pickering Lumber Co. Thirty-two years ago he and his father William R. Pickering organized the W. R. Pickering Lumber Co. for $60,000. They prospered, took in as subsidiaries the Standard Lumber Co. and the Pickering Land and Timber Co., established 51 retail yards in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, developed timber holdings of some 350,000,000 feet of southern yellow pine and 3,500,000,000 feet...
Berlenbach launched a one-two punch like the slow, alternate strokes of a freight locomotive's pistons. Slattery danced out; he lifted his hands from his sides to flick the sultry visage of his opponent; he mocked and mowed, smiling his smile of a derisive faun; his body flashed with spite. Berlenbach lowered his head. When struck, he shook it from side to side-a bull perplexed by dragonflies...
...three most considerable articles, "Tame Asses", "Learning", and "Too Many Educators", address themselves to the absorbing problem of ourselves as undergraduates, graduates, and teachers. The caption of the first article not only has a flick at current fiction; it recalls a profoundly significant remark of Mandell Creighton's that. "After we have got rid of the ape and the tiger we shall have to dispose of the donkey, a much more intractable animal." It is reassuring to find the Liberal Club trying to put spirit and glorified common sense into the head of this domestic brute. The burden...