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...Churchill-Birkenhead clique, arch-Russophobes, dictated (as their share of the Cabinet compromise) a note of "protest and warning" to the Soviet Government. The language of this note was not that of diplomacy. It was intelligible to the man in the street and clear to the man in the gutter. Had such a note been addressed to the U. S., French, or Italian Government by the British it would have constituted an insult, only to be avenged by war. Paradoxically the mild, peace-propagating Sir Austen Chamberlain was obliged to sign this note as Foreign Secretary. His was another slice...
...Nestoroff, the woman is called. Before and after Giorgio Mirelli she has had many men. Her proclivity for throwing her very beautiful body away on gutter types right after it has been worshiped by refined slaves, suggests degeneracy to most of her critics. The impassive Gubbio thinks not. He can understand it is her subtle revenge upon men who desire only that part of her which she scorns. Her revenge upon Giorgio, a pure youth, an artist, had to be yet more subtle because the injury he did her was worse than the others. He enjoyed only her body...
...Admiral of the Fleet (British), First Sea Lord: "As I dined in state with many a guest, last week, at my estate, the Priory, Reigate, England, the roof caught fire. I, the hero of Jutland, watched the firemen until, convinced that they were louts, I climbed up a gutter pipe to direct their efforts. Stoutly, I shouted commands. My wife, the irrepressible daughter of the late Marshall Field (Dry Goods), cried to our guests: 'You see, the boy stands on the burning deck! Lord Beatty can resist everything but the temptation to command...
...solid to the channel bottom. Not a ship could pass through. More than one hundred, 66 of them bound down with 15,000,000 bushels of grain, had been caught in the freeze. From Detour to the "Soo" they stretched in long file, like sausages linked out over a gutter of lard. Reefered sailors dog-trotted up and down the long iron decks; flapped their cold arms against their bodies, like turkeys trying to fly to a shed roof; dared not pull off their mittens to blow their noses. There was wind and snow. Men hunched up their shoulders...
...ragged parent with Shavian grievances against middle-class morality. Together with Beryl Mercer as a simple housekeeper who understands women better than the celebrated bachelor scientists, they offer as fine a performance as the Guild or any other organization, can boast for this season. Liza Doolittle, howling gutter-virgin, is transformed by Scientist Higgins into a perfect specimen of Dutchess Britannica-triumph for Mr. Higgins' theory of phonetics. As the outside of a beautiful Duchess, the love-starved waif finds herself in a cruel predicament. She is more woman than artist, would rather sustain a black eye than...