Word: haired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Michigan, speaking of Mr. Mencken's translation of the Declaration of Independence said: " That Mr. Mencken has failed to perceive the gulf between the sterile vulgarity of his performance and the massive dignity of the original, is for Americans not a matter of ridicule, but for the hair shirt and the lash, for tears of shame and self-abasement." If Dr. Scott really means all that he should refrain from reading the newspapers. Mr. Mencken's translation may be and undoubtedly is as uninspired as all the rest of the prose and verse which has been done into...
Angry antics from the Reds. Bombacci speechless with rage; waves arms, ruffles hair, pulls beard. Silence. Bombacci recovers power of speech: " You stand for barbarism, not civilization. You could not publish a Fascist newspaper in Moscow because there is a law against it? You Fascisti are guilty of having made a comic opera of revolution...
...ruddy-faced, bull-necked person of tall, heavy build, with a heavy, furrowed jaw, a forehead protruding from a tangle of coarse, dark hair; small, dark, shiny eyes, and thick lips under the drooping mustache? Stambuliski has a sullen air which is sometimes lit up by a spark of jovial energy. Physically he is a butcher, with an intelligent eye; morally lie has an iron will at the beck of simple ideas, which are sometimes vague; much sullen conceit, more pride; a good dose of courage; no more scruples than absolutely required; the art, of flattering men's passions...
...quarantine?and promptly start ambushing their hosts as a beginning of making Utopia safe for Democracy. Only the subeditor, Mr. Barnstaple, dissents fro'm the Earthling program of conquest and is nearly shot as a traitor by his fellows as a result. He escapes from them, after hair-breadth adventures?they are shot back violently to earth via Utopian wireless?and he remains in Utopia for some time, studying its civilization. Finally, he returns?it is the only act of service he can do Utopia, for it will assist the ends of Utopian science returns, unwilling, to the old, individualistic...
...found her as cute and lovely as on the screen, but much more beautiful, for the deep violet of her eyes, the gold of her hair and the rose petal softness of her skin are impossible to perceive on the silver sheet." Imagine...