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...superman made the airplane," observed Professor Joad, "but the ape has got hold of it. To step on foot throttles, insert coins into metal slots, scan headlines, crowd through clicking turnstiles, turn on the radio, hurl ourselves over the surface of the earth in a mechanism propelled by petrol-these constitute the modern notion of entertainment...
...income of this Harvardman is $7,000 a year. Expenses run $2,500, dental supplies, hotel bills, but mostly oil and petrol. In the outback, petrol often runs $1 a gallon...
...movement is self-contained. The first describes an early trans-continental flight to Australia, and it illustrates abundantly the devotion of Day Lewis to a strictly contemporary poetic diction, which takes account of the machine and the effect of machinery upon modern life. There is mention, for example, of 'petrol pump,' 'hangar,' 'filter,' 'magneto,' and other technical expressions. Dr. Johnson's strictures on this kind of poetic diction appear in his discussion of Dryden's "Annus Mirabilis," and though they posses a universal validity, they do not apply, with any exactness, to Day Lewis, for that poet has worked them...
...Duce has not yet said what he will do if the League does right by Ethiopia and indicts Italy for the rape of the dusky virgin to the south. But Europe knows the stormy petrol of Rome well enough to be sure that strong-arm action on the part of Geneva will send the third illustrious guest belting from a party which he considers to be getting too wild to suit his simple tastes. With Italy, Germany, and Japan forming a harmonious trio off in a corner thumbing their noses at the League of Nations, France and Great Britain would...
...plane's metallic chairs. Said KLM's report: "The experts came to the conclusion that the machine had been struck by a heavy flash of lightning which killed its occupants instantaneously, and that it continued flying until it struck the ground, where it crashed, somersaulted and the petrol burst into flames...