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...events showed. She had her reward later, in another field, just after dawn. There, and at an interview by the tomb of Sir Robert Maulgrave?the Satanic baronet who had drunk from a skull and ridden a zebra about the countryside?Lolly made certain of Satan for what he is???a black knight wandering about succoring decayed gentlewomen; a loving huntsman who affords empty lives some adventure by pursuing their souls in all their windings, patiently, secretly, like a gentleman stalking tigers. . . . Such a delicate perfection in spider-claw prose is not published once in a crooked moon...
...spirit, Disraeli is???it could not be otherwise?the younger. Kittenishly and desperately he is in love with two grandmothers. Reeking with atrocious romance he will write yet another novel, while perhaps Gladstone's chief private speculation is whether he ought not even now to retire from politics and serve God as a bishop...
...wishing for a current News Sheet which will give me the news, briefly, concisely and tersely, without confusing comments. But, speaking in the language of the man who stood looking at a giraffe: 'Thur ain't no sich animal.' " "Pardon me," said the efficient young clerk, "but there is???here it is," and he handed me TIME. I returned to the cottage veranda and although Bishop Brent was valiantly extolling the League of Na- tions in the nearby Amphitheatre, I read that copy of TIME from the upper left hand corner to the lower right hand one (there were...
...personal" journalism needs no promotion manager to retain the attention of its unsolicited clientele, but because wartime has passed. "It is, as a matter of fact, only in this last year or so that there has begun in earnest the relaxation toward that state of men's minds which is???let us suppose it is, anyway?best fitted for peace time, when vision falls back from its high point and must be supplemented by understanding...
...Manhattan, Louis Sherry's restaurant is???well, Sherry's, something the same as Claridge's in London. Sables and silks go in to Sherry's; plenty of blue blood, too, and real diamonds. The carpets are lush and silent underfoot, the waiters obsequious, the linen snowy, the crystal sparkling...