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...Resentment. . . . When you read the comment in foreign journals and consider the contrast between our prosperity and the destitution abroad it takes a very blunt imagination not to be disturbed. . . . Every nation hates us. ... In this bitter feeling there is the making of a conflict that would not only hurl us down from our high place but, in destroying us, destroy civilization. . . .I am no alarmist.-Bruce Barton, President Barton, Durstine, and Osborne Advertising Agency...
...weeks ago Brown lost to Harvard at Providence in a game that was made almost impossible by a steady down-pour of rain. Today's weather should be more favorable when the two nines clash on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock, and if Danzell who is slated to hurl for the invaders is in form, the game should be a tight pitchers' battle, with the Crimson, due to its previous win and the fast speed at which, it is now travelling, slightly the favorite...
...satisfied with the form of both his twirlers, and was confident of getting through the game with only one of them facing the Penn aggregation. Harvard faces Holy Cross on Wednesday, and one of the Cambridge aces will have a hard enough task against the Crusaders without attempting to hurl twice within the week...
...There appears on their tiny horizon a smooth and sinister young man who will get the husband into the Elks and the wife into the movies. By the third act he has all the former's money and the latter's honor. The hapless two awake to hurl recriminations back and forth and to make up in blinding tears...
When dirty weather gathers in this book, as it does continually, the seas thunder, spurt, hurl, burst, cascade, career and cannonade. Poops lurch, hatches groan, bulwarks drown, spars shiver, tumults surge, canvas flogs, human limpets cling to wreckage with bleeding nails, battered limbs, frozen hands, grim resolve. It is a fast-sailing tale of clipper days, stoutly and thoroughly rigged from stem to gudgeon, commanded by a cultured swashbuckler from Nova Scotia, a hammer-fisted, hell-bent "bluenose" skipper, with Nietzschean ethics, Vulcanic muscles, the passions of Poseidon, the luck of Lucifer. When his clipper Aphrodite goes down off Patagonia...