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...great painter he is capable of liking them more passionately and more concretely than your common fellow. It is not merely their savor that appeals to him; it is their mass and rhythm. The concentric ovals of their yolks and whites, the fecund chromes bewitched to a dark gold, haunt his dreams with the memory of a beauty marvelous and fugitive. To satisfy the demands of that memory, he painted them, the fried eggs of his dream, in a form as compact as a concerto?a form that leaves upon the mind of the beholder a sensation as definite...
...frosty. His wrists are steel springs ; his swing is the crack of a quirt. The second, gloomy, nervous, plays with the air of a martyr being tortured for his faith, has twice won the amateur championship. The immense shoulders, the full-moon face, the stocky legs of the third*, haunt the dreams of the many U. S. golfers who have seen him send his drives away, like bridesmaids, to the place where the parallels...
...honest observer admits that English organization did wonders for Egypt and that two years of Egyptian independence have performed greater marvels in restoring the chaos of the seventies. Now that Egypt has surrendered to the British demands, both London and Paris newspapers predict a restoration of the protectorate. To haunt the British mind anew, the ghost of Cecil Rhodes has been seen in Downing Street with the Cape-to-Cairo project under...
Down Ludgate Hill he marches, into Fleet Street, haunt of journalists. A Gentleman with a Duster spies him and makes these notes: "Tall— ;rigid-lean gray face-heavy-lidded eyes-of an almost Asian deadness-upper lip projects-stonelike- impassive-like a figure from the pages of Dostoievsky- like a poor Russian nobleman...
...throne. Men are judged by their company. Alfonso's greatest friend is the only man who surpasses him in ignominy, if not in stupidity - Primo Rivera. He is a companion in the King's debauch and has dirtied the uniform in every kind of adventure and every haunt of vice...