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...next editorial, Poet Stuart was madder than ever. "I couldn't write an editorial about Dictator Joe Bates with out getting slugged in the head," he explained, "in one of the most unfair method ever used on a man. . . . Without boasting, by using fists and skull and without weapons of any sort, I can whip Amos Allen on less street-space in Greenup than the length of his body. . . . The blood I shed from the three wounds was more than a quart. . . . For every drop of blood I shed - yes, for every red, sticky drop - I shall write...
...querulous, disdainful, frequently degenerating to an unpleasant pose. But his last letters, written during the War, when his old friends were dead and he was growing blind, are as sharp as anything he wrote. "I am in a new society and a new world which is more wild and madder by far than the old one . . . and the only difference is that I terribly miss your father's conversation and his dry champagne. . . . We ordinary people in Washington are no longer permitted to have it. The world is improved! We kill each other by the hundred thousand, without remorse...
...more I thought about the matter the madder I got. On arriving at the Alabama State line I made a bee line for the nearest highway patrol station, asking what fees were necessary, I was told that the State was free to commercial travellers. They then asked if I had been swindled in Mississippi and told me that it was a sweet racket which had been going on since 1934. These Alabama highway patrol boys make it a point to warn all travellers from their side and told me that even so, many travellers are "arrested" WHILE ON THEIR...
...hospitable American who once had a drink with him perhaps. The hospitable American takes him to a party where he meets about thirty more H. A.'s. They find out where he is staying (if he has found out himself) and from then on it is just "madder music and stronger wine" until he is carried in a state of delirium tremens and general paralysis of the insane onto the returning boat. The man who does not get the best time of his life in a visit to America must either spend his visit on Ellis Island or go about...
...page way before the rails begin to appear. Its scene opens among the Petersburg intelligentsia, gradually broadens to include engineers, workers, peasants, revolutionaries. All around the horizon the skies are darkening; as the atmosphere thickens and the wind rises, these rootless figures swirl in ever madder gyrations. Everyone hails the Revolution as the beginning of a new era, but for many it is the dawn of their last day. Though, like all well-behaved Soviet novels, Darkness and Dawn seeks safety in numbers from the bourgeois bugaboo of a "hero," from its scores of principal characters a half-dozen stand...