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...horseman, Famine. Said he: "It is not to be wondered at that, in a Province where the harvest is officially recognized as insufficient, peasants are pillaging trains loaded with wheat and eat a mixture of the bark of trees and horse refuse. Famine, unpitying and inexorable, is drawing ever nearer in the country districts of Russia. This time an American relief association will not come. The Bolshevist policy has closed the door to it. They will know this in the Russian countryside...
...prose values of material and the sort of prose effect that it is possible to obtain with given material. But if one accepts the misapplication of lyric form, the management in detail is powerful. "The Hanging of Kruscome Shanks" by Walter D. Edmonds Jr., comes much nearer to being a short story. In detail the story commands prose style, but in general effect it compromises between the study of a social group that is the proper field of one sort of novel, and the creation of the mood that is lyric. The centralization of poetry is substituted for the very...
...Carefully, cautiously, noiselessly the tracks were followed. Several miles they went before the object of their sleuthing was sighted. Crack! spoke the Duke's rifle. With a howl of rage and pain, a rhinoceroes turned and charged at the second son of King George, York reserved his fire. Nearer and nearer the enraged animal came, its head lowered, its two white horns gleaming their deadly significance. Nearer and nearer, 50 yards, 40 yards, 30 yards-crack! a bullet sped from York's rifle ... a perissodactyl monster lay dead...
...from their diminishing reservations; for his vote is negligible and his taxes do not contribute largely to the treasury of the United States. This condition of things is a black mark on the American escutcheon, but it is unfortunately a fact. The same phenomenon in miniature may be observed nearer at home after a heavy fall of snow, in a comparison of the well cleared streets of the Backs Bay with chose of the North...
...press stand, heads began wagging with surprise. These "Tigers" had been rated the weaker team and here they were forcing the 'action. Their line was hitting hard and low, their backs were cleaving swiftly. Halfback Whiteman was darting passes to Fullback Faurot, nearer and nearer the Trojan goal line. At the 22-yard line, there was a check; but the march began again and Right End Walsh dropped back for a placement kick from the Californians' 17-yard line. At last the Trojans braced. Walsh's kick skimmed askew and for the rest of the half Missouri...