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As a teacher, Nadi insists on strict observance of the punctilio of fencing, even to a show of courtesy toward the judges-for whom Nadi usually has only the most perfunctory respect. In saluting an opponent, a Nadi fencer must hold his mask in his left hand with four fingers...
"Will Russia drive into Germany and raise the Red Flag in Europe? She may. She may because the atrocities committed by the Nazis in Occupied Russia have been so frightful that blood must be paid in blood. ... Or he [Stalin] might want no part of Germany. . . . Unless I am mistaken...
Ghastly visions of plants that eat flesh have troubled the dreams of many imaginative men. In William Randolph Hearst's American Weekly a romancer named Dr. Carle Liche once described what he saw one frightful tree do to a native girl in Madagascar. ". . . Then while her awful screams . . . rose...
I didn't have the heart to watch it any longer. To see a ship struck that way with the smoke rolling out gives one rather a sickening sensation. . . . There were other explosions during the forenoon, with planes flying over. It was perfectly clear that the Americans had very...
Down from his native hills stormed the patriarchal, kilted Chief of the Kerry Clan, The McGillycuddy of the Reeks, the heights above the Lakes of Killarney. The McGillycuddy averred that a lack of censorship would spread venereal disease. He knew, he said, how frightful that could be. Anyone well acquainted...