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Wearer of a daily carnation, owner of a quarter-million-dollar yacht, Lord Camrose is a Conservative with his eyes open, plays cricket with the Government, pursues a middle course in his papers and keeps his personality out of them. In a merciless four-year war for supremacy in the provinces, fought paper by paper, Lord Camrose trounced beefy Lord Rothermere, whose publications are often used as personal sounding boards. It was no accident that the rise of his Daily Telegraph coincided with the slow death of the ostrich-eyed Morning Post. Lord Camrose's empire now includes...
...When my father died," Prince Konoye affectingly relates, "men who had received favors from him seemed to forget those favors, and there were even some who demanded the repayment of loans they claimed to have made him. One, a wealthy notable, was particularly merciless. As we had no money, we sent him some of our valuable treasures, but he would accept nothing but cash. This and other pathetic incidents bred in my susceptible mind a hatred of injustice. I was a gloomy youth throughout my student days, with an inclination to read extremist literature from Western Europe...
...white ballet is merciless to inexperienced dancers. In two years the American Ballet has gone far but is still short of a finished ensemble. Last week it did less than justice to the sophisticated sequences describing Apollo's birth, adolescence, reception of the Muses and apotheosis. The Muses, at least, were surer on their feet than Apollo, landed more firmly after leaping just as high. Experts, disappointed in the dancing, found much to commend in Stravinsky's dry music and Stewart Chaney's restrained, curious...
Clochemerle had been without this convenience for more than 1,000 years, but use & wont was not the difficulty. Unfortunately for peace, the worst old maid in town had her window very near by. Her complaints merely attracted more unseemly goings-on than ever. A merciless churchgoer, she embroiled the gentle parish priest in her quarrel, soon had all Clochemerle divided into Urinophobes and Urinophiles. Scandals grew and burgeoned, culminating in a near-riot in the church itself. After that, disasters followed fast. Jealous citizens from a neighboring village came by night, blew up the urinal; the Government, with mistaken...
That corpse, the Florida Ship Canal, several times the subject of a merciless autopsy in the House and Senate, is once again dragged from its peaceable, much-deserved rest. Its history, never particularly edifiing, has now become a story of obstinacy and foolishness...