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...wanted of him the drama moved forward with a steadily sharpening curve of emotion. Lacoste took the first set 6-3, the second 12-10. The champion now employed all of those hackneyed stage flourishes that mar his more fervid performances. Even as actors of genuine talent sometimes paw the air and mouth their lines, so Tilden permitted himself an occasional half-stagger; he took off his shoes and played in his stocking feet; he poured buckets of ice-water over his bleak brow. However crude his technique in indicating to the gallery that he was a beaten...
...cloud, but lightless in the glade he wanders; the forest talks to him in many voices; night presses her hands over his eyes. Ever lie hear.; in his heart the voice of the once happy squirrel, reproaching him for the hurt he did her furry side, her tender paw, and he weeps with regret in the sullen copice, uncomforted. The squirrel, unable to support any longer the pain of her wound, falls swooning at his feet. He picks her up. He bandages with fumbling care her paw in a silk ribbon. Ah, how they rejoice then, the creatures who before...
...baronet to come into the world, and the final happiness of all concerned was only qualified by the symbolic significance of a picture bequeathed by a dying Forsyte. It was a Chinese work, depicting a "large whitish sidelong monkey, holding the rind of a squeezed fruit in its outstretched paw." The picture is commented on as a perfect allegory. "Eat the fruits of life, scatter the rinds, and get copped doing it," says one of its observers; ... a monkey's eyes are the human tragedy incarnate...
...highly dramatic incident recharged the air with electrical emotion. The delegates had signed the final protocol of the agreement and were somewhat sheepishly regarding one another with a "that's that" expression on their faces, when Premier MacDonald started the electricity by shaking hands all round. The paw of Chancellor Marx he held long and earnestly, led its owner to Premier Herriot of France, seized the right hand of the latter and affectionately pressed it into that owned by Wilhelm Marx. German and Frenchmen's hands tightened in a cordial hand salute while Premier Ramsay smiled benignly...
...Charles D. Gibson's Life a two-page cartoon which struck terror into the heart of the observer. It depicted a hideous reptile crawling across the map of the U. S. Its tail was securely planted in San Francisco. Part of its belly burdened New York. One lugubrious paw had Chicago in its clutch, another Los Angeles. An outstretched limb had already grabbed Albany, the giant fore paw overshadowed Washington. Of the face of the beast there could be no question. It was the heavy-hanging face of William Randolph Hearst...