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...night Hugo was entertaining the Duke of Hoven in his Virginia mansion. A dreadful scream rang out. A Negro child had been devoured by a monstrous fox. Nothing remained but a few bones, a pigtail, a pathetic scrap of petticoat. Hugo, Dev and the Duke leapt into the saddle, galloped madly after the fleeing...
...Election Day-minus-76, the Justice Department leapt at the throats of 47 Western railroads, their officials, the Western Association of Railway Executives...
Tony was in no sense a trick horse. But he was intelligent, utterly trusted Mix, and had what Tom called "a genius for acting." He leapt chasms, he dashed down precipices, he received Mix (an indifferent horseman) from a parachute. He carried Mix through a blast of dynamite which knocked a hole in Tony's side. He developed social graces. He managed to keep a straight face when he was honored in the dining rooms of the Savoy in London, the Crillon in Paris, the Astor in Manhattan, and when he was given quarters in the check room...
...character leapt Alvin Ward Vogtle, Birmingham coal shipper who is also president of the National Association of Shippers Advisory Boards, to defend the railroads' action. Said he: "The increase should be not only liberal but generous...our very lives and freedom depend on the railroads....The railroads in the past two emergency years have done a better job than any other industry....There must be adequate revenue for property and service maintenance to provide for the highest degree of efficiency." He opposed a compromise suggestion-selective increases aimed at consumer and nonwar traffic-on the grounds that it would...
...Past" were England, France and the U. S., the "Forces of the Future" were Naziism, Fascism, Communism. "Somehow," she wrote, "the leaders in Germany, Italy and Russia have discovered how to use new social and economic forces.. . . They have felt the wave of the future and they have leapt upon it. The evils we deplore in these systems are not in themselves the future; they are scum on the wave of the future." To her it was futile for the U. S. to get into "a hopeless 'crusade' to save civilization." The task...