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...staging the story, for which Jews have been reviled through the centuries (see p. 44), some for cramping into commercial dimensions a grave, long-drawn folk epic. The Palm. Sunday entry into Jerusalem. was a complex, splendid orchestration of crowds flowing in great whorls toward and about the temple portals, looking ever backward to the approaching figure of the Christus. For the Last Supper, Leonardo's faded painting was lavishly restored in living shapes. On Calvary the greensward was cool, terribly oblivious of the burdened crosses. Solemnities of tone from orchestra, organ and choir sounded through the entire pageant...
Luckless merchants of Hankow were "assessed" (robbed) of $2,500,000 to be used by the Wuhan generals in carrying on their civil war. Before Marshal Chiang left Nanking he tapped the Nationalist treasury for $5,000,000. Prognostications were for a long-drawn war of skirmishes, possibly to be fought to a finish in the southern provinces near Canton, a region thus far comparatively unplundered by China's peripatetic militarists...
Came a sudden cloudburst. Roads were washed out. Impossible to move. Black night descended. Fitfully in their busses the travelers dozed. Came, out of South Africa, a noise like distant thunder, then the full-chested, long-drawn reverberant roar of lions in the bush, a sound no lion makes in captivity...
...tombstone for Reed but a tombstone by Reed was his 37,000 word report on his special committee's long-drawn investigation of the manner in which William S. Vare of Philadelphia got nominated for and elected to the Senate...
...England's steady resistance to pneumonia over a period exceeding three weeks. Science has now so advanced the medical profession that it has been possible to increase and fortify the white germ-destroying corpuscles in the blood royal. The skilled specialist is prepared today to wage a long-drawn war of attrition with the enemy germs in which the chances of medical victory are enormously enhanced. The old-fashioned CRISIS was the climax of a short, decisive skirmish between the infective germs and whatever white germ-eating corpuscles the patient was lucky enough to possess...