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When Britons, who like to spend especially cheerless afternoons by the fire reading Tchekov, Turgenev, or Dostoevsky, want to describe a person whose deep gloom is relieved only by occasional starts of dark suspicion, they say: "Frightfully Russian." Frightfully Russian were Russians last week. Citizens heard almost no official announcements about the campaign in Finland-except that Russia's defensive warfare against aggressive Finland had reached points 90 miles inside Finland's borders. But in the streets unhappy Russians heard ugly rumors...
...headland called Punta del Este, where Uruguayans gathered in crowds as if to watch a pelota match, Ajax and Achilles craftily slipped around Spee inshore of her, leaving the enemy silhouetted in the east by the reflected light of the setting sun, themselves under shore's gloom. Just before dark there were two sharp clashes, and it was evidently in one of those that Spee suffered a final disaster: A hit at the forefoot, at bow and waterline, so that as she went through the sea she shipped water. At last night fell, Spee limped away, turned about, ingloriously...
...Lothian." Of Clarence Streit's plan for "Union Now," which Sargent charges is a British scheme for ruling the world, he says: "The unification of the British Empire goes on, led by the great band of deluded peace-loving Americans, prayerfully chanting: 'Lead Kindly Streit Amid Encircling Gloom...
...article containing this piece of super-gloom was by Emil Helfferich, onetime "Maritime Adviser to the Führer" who became board chairman of the North German Lloyd and Hamburg American Lines when the Nazis lumped them under the same directorate in 1933. Herr Helfferich urged that the Government aid stagnant German export-import firms by permitting them to discharge superfluous employes (illegal under the Nazi job-protection laws); by letting them use "rent free" the Government warehouses in which German clogged exports are now piling up; and by directly providing "necessary capital to keep them afloat." If all this...
...black casket of the only millionaire on the Court rested beneath six wavy-flamed candles in the gloom of St. Matthews Church, the man most mentioned last week as Pierce Butler's successor could jingle all his wealth in his jeans at any time. Frank Murphy, once Mayor of Detroit, High Commissioner to the Philippines, now Attorney General of the U. S., was freely nominated by the Palace Janizariat to Butler's seat before the black drapes were placed there...