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...There should be a chapter on Anger. Repressed rage is one of man's grandest endowments, and I wouldn't give a straw for a man who couldn't on occasion bite a crowbar in two in pure dancing fury. But-don't do it; you simply spoil the crowbar or break a tooth...
...paravanes hung from every grey prow and all hands at battle stations. In the preceding preparatory weeks the West Coast had thrilled to the report that, although not a shot was to be fired, the Fleet had taken aboard almost its wartime ammunition load. Thus began Fleet Problem XVI, grandest Naval maneuver in U.S. history. whose scene and scope agitated the nation as none of its annual predecessors ever had before...
...COUSIN F. MARION CRAWFORD? Maude Howe Elliott?Macmillan ($2.50). More about the late socialite writer, by the daughter of Julia Ward Howe, one of Newport's grandest oldest ladies...
...writing Sitwells?Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell?that they had genius enough for two. If Sacheverell's latest book does not show the full two-thirds that is his family share, it does reveal him as a conscientious, able biographer who has brought back to life one of music's grandest, most glittering figures?Franz Liszt...
...Several months ago graft charges were preferred in a local court against the "Red Prince," but he brazenly announced, "I am called away from Georgia on an imperative official mission." Before he was caught he had squandered 128,000 rubles on the grandest Bolshevik spree on record...