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...plot crouch, coil, dart like a snake; lets her big scenes turn boldly on melodrama. Melodrama has become a word to frighten nice-nelly playwrights with; but, beyond its own power to excite, it can stir up genuine drama of character and will. Like the dramatists of a hardier day, Lillian Hellman knows this, capitalizes on it, brilliantly succeeds...
...parade came Japanese officers riding in motor cars or on horses so shockingly thin and ill-cared for as to make many a spectator gasp. Well-fed, clean-uniformed Japanese infantry came next, the middle-aged troops of the Son of Heaven who are invading China while his better, hardier and younger soldiers guard Manchukuo against Soviet Russia. After the infantry came machine guns, then mountain guns dismantled and packed on skinny horses, finally rumbling heavy artillery, munitions wagons and field artillery corps-the whole Victory Parade of such length that it took half-an-hour to pass a given...
...Great Trek (as the Boers still call it), the hardier of the early Dutch settlers, disgruntled at the cession (1814) of the Cape Colony to the British and smarting under the alien rule, moved out with their families, their herds and their household possessions, betook themselves northward across the Orange and Vaal Rivers into the then unknown region of the Transvaal. It was a perilous undertaking, for besides the barrier range of mountains, the rivers across the way, the high plateau of the Transvaal itself was lion-infested, overrun by the warlike Zulu and Kaffir tribes. Moving in great wagon...
...scrutinizing the Permian, and the immediately following Triassic, periods, the Harvard Paleontologists are dealing with the origins of the Mesozoic era, or the 100,000,000-year "reign" of the great reptiles. Developed from hardier amphibans, the Permian and Triassic reptiles were the first forms of life able to live and to rear their young outside the water. For millions of years the descendants of these pioneer land forms ruled the earth, taking final form in some cases as the giant dinosaurs. Then the reptile domain abruptly ended, and when the fossil story resumes, after a long lapse...
...which used to win. Thoroughbreds are built for racing and hunting as well as show. Slightly crossed with standard-bred horses, they make excellent saddlers. Ken-tucky-bred horses have been fined down to a mettlesome nervousness highly impressive in the ring but unsuited, so their critics claim, to hardier exercise. Judges last week overlooked Antonio P. Fachiri's imported thoroughbred Rosewater, gave the Biltmore Challenge Cup, for three-gaited saddle horses suitable for park rid- ing, to Jane Bancroft's Kentucky-bred mare, Likely Lady...