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...legend of Faust is brought up to date and dramatized in Marquisian manner. Sample: "Faust: Is not a Good Woman one of the noblest works of God? Mephisto: It is more terrible than that, even: God is one of the subtlest inventions of the Good Woman...
...Frenchified dress suits affected by President Kemal one-stepped and black-bottomed in a fashion to make the King of Kings blink. Stoutly, Persian courtiers insisted to their jewel-bedecked Turkish partners, on whose toes they had a tendency to tread, that "His Majesty is of ancient lineage, the noblest in Mazanderan...
THREE HUMAN BOMBS "The highest and noblest monument of war was erected near Shanghai by the Three Human Bombs at Miaohangchen. At dawn on March 22, 1932, in a general attack on Miaohangchen a certain Japa nese Division, which marched from Woosung, encountered great obstacles through the stubborn resistance of the Chinese troops, which, firmly entrenched, defied the fierce onset of the Imperial Army. The Chinese soldiers raised strong defense works there during a month. A way had to be cut through these deadly obstacles for the Imperial troops. Three heroes of a Japanese sappers' corps, named Takeji Eshita...
...Farge also quoted Pius XI: "The faithful should not be present at the sacred ceremonies like mere outsiders or speechless bystanders; but should be deeply affected by the beauty of the liturgy." Singing should be an act of faith. It is. said Father La Farge. "one of the noblest of all 'devotions...
...Certainly the childhood of Vridar Hunter was not happy. Eldest son of a poor Idaho farmer and his puritanic wife, Vridar grew up in a shack where food was scarce, comfort unheard-of, with no companions but his younger brother and sister. His parents did not think farming the noblest occupation of man; they were grimly determined that their children should get an education and escape to something better. Vridar was a sensitive, delicate child, subject to convulsions and haunting fears. The sight of blood made him sick. Though he lived on a farm, his frigid mother for a long...