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...anger from their wrath on the labored, Teutonic, Kolossal opus. Written over a period over ten years, this novel, hurriedly completed in a few months, scarcely re-touched, and condensed not at all, has been published in a rough, raw, dull, and barbaric fulsomeness. Let us regurgitate, they howl in chorus, Dreiser and all his works once and forever. He knows nothing, utterly nothing of art. He is an offense in the sight of Heaven; his sloppy writing emanates from the vaporings of a tawdry, baudy, second-rate mind. Even a dog would not, in the Biblical phrase, return...
...John N. Willys at his annual luncheon there would be a perfect howl of protest. Yet, great as it seems, this increase in motor car fuel and tires would represent only about 50% of what the automobile owner now throws away in depreciation...
...quoted as believing Yurovski suddenly resolved to assassinate the Imperial family when he discovered that Nicholas was communicating with loyal friends by means of such notes concealed in the hollow cork of a milk bottle. According to her account, a pet dog belonging to the young Tsarevitch commenced to howl inconsolably as soon as his master had been shot dead. This so worked upon the nerves of the murderer, Yurovski, that he seized the dog and dashed its brains out against a red-hot stove...
...Story. "Peter is born." Thus his story begins. Red snow falls. Wolves howl. Peter howls. His mother the Czarina is wafted to heaven. God receives her on His throne of lapis lazuli. The Tsar is dead?Peter's father...
...minutes the screams, the laughter, and the peasant's bewild- erment continued. Then the forester desisted. Prince Carl, ceasing to howl, admitted that his lumbago had apparently vanished under this violent form of treatment advocated by King Christian...