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...Frank T. Parson, Washington...
...witness a mass-beating went Chicago Daily News's by no means squeamish Correspondent Negley Parson. He noted that the first Gandhites to appear were ambulance men, stretcher bearers with red crosses on their arms. Next came the demonstrators for Independence, thousands of Hindus, scores of Sikhs. Then the police charged. All the Hindus seemed frightened-as well they might, being completely unarmed, knowing they would be beaten blue and blacker by police lathi (sticks)-but only a handful of the Hindus broke and ran, while not a Sikh stirred. Women, whom the police were ordered not to strike...
...they seem to him dreadfully rapacious, scarifying. Tony has had a queer, handicapped upbringing, on which Author Marlow raises the curtain little by little as the story goes on. A child when the War began, he was old enough to feel but not understand what it meant when his parson father was ostracized and persecuted because he was against the War, when his soldier brother, not much older than Tony, shot himself in France because he acquired a venereal disease. Tony grew up outwardly normal, attractive, good at games, mildly social; inwardly he was stunted, emotionally infantile. Post-War girls...
...inspired by Mark Twain's famed story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." It was this story which overnight made Twain famous, launched him on a literary career. In it he delineates the experiences of an old reprobate who wanted to bet on everything, even that the parson's seriously ill wife would die when her physician said she was recovering...
...Frank Morison" is a pseudonym. His publishers call him "a fairly well-known British writer," say he is no parson...