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Alethea could never understand the violence of Nicholas's feeling until one day his mother arrived from Australia. She was a hideous dwarf. Nicholas hated her, hated the thought that he had dwarf's blood in his veins, was morbidly afraid he himself had a dwarf's soul in a man's body. After a terrible scene Alethea took the little boy and ran away to her aunt in Germany. Though eventually she went back to her husband, for years she did not dare have her son in the same house with him. The boy grew up with a talent...
...businessman whose strength had been weakened by overexpansion, who was left floundering in Depression's flood. But the next day California Corporation Commissioner Raymond Le Roy Haight made charges which, if true, will strip the last vestige of decency from the friend of Mayors. Also involved in the hideous charges last week was Clarence M. Fuller, onetime Richfield president, still solvent but jobless...
...career full of glory and adulation Death came last week to Dame Nellie Melba, 64, in Sydney, Australia. Her fate was a hideous, unnamed disease. In Cairo, some time ago, she contracted what was presumably some form of Leishmaniasis, a disease characterized by many boils and caused by a microscopic animal parasite which gets into the blood stream supposedly by bedbug or louse bite. She appeared to be cured in the Autumn before leaving England for Australia. On shipboard she suffered a relapse, was carried ashore to Melbourne on a cot. A German doctor who had helped...
...misdemeanors of the people and the court, and in his Caprices and Proverbs, he denounced them in the most scathing manner. Napoleon's ambition to add Spain to his list of conquered nations, resulted in years of fighting accompanied by starvation, mutilation, and all the horrors of war. These hideous scenes accompanying Spain's struggle for independence, were translated by Goya's imagination into the series of the Disasters of War. They do not depict specific events but represent what might and probably did take place...
...Aupick. When Charles began to roam Paris with Bohemian friends, General Aupick feared for his own careful reputation. Soon they quarreled openly and Charles went off to live by himself. In his way both a dandy and an ascetic, Baudelaire astonished even the Bohemians. His first mistress was a hideous, squint-eyed, consumptive Jewess off the streets. Then he met Jeanne Duval, a beautiful Negress, and lived with her many stormy months. His hand-to-mouth existence was complicated by laudanum, which he took to stifle intestinal pains...