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...Vagabond reads Hobbes and thinks of Spain, the embattled loyalists running for cover, food gone, hearts gone, courage gone, the Cause gone. Snarling Whites plunging down the craggy Spanish hills, naked to their waists, indomitable, their powder dry-and plenty of it. Liberty! We Spit On Thee....A dictator, blood and thunder, kill the damn Reds, Vive L'Espagna....An ideology crumbles before gunfire...
...admissions--who is a wise man, who a dolt. And we're fairly certain that the court wouldn't be many weeks old before it had a sponsor who would buy the broadcasting privilege, and we would have universal truth coming to us through the courtesy of Universal Baking Powder. The New Yorker...
...when such an "incident" occurs (for to the historically minded among us all revolutions and social and economic upheavals are mere "incidents") a great deal depends upon the number of people who have been trained to keep their mental powder dry, oven when all around them it rains oratorical cats and dogs. For when the clouds of debate and strife shall have been dispersed by the inevitable flow of fresh commonsense, it is these boys of the Great Aloofness who will have to pick up the pieces and start the work of reconstruction. I don't want...
Cinchophen is a bitter white powder discovered in 1887 and used since 1908 as a treatment for gout, arthritis, rheumatic fever, neuralgia, neuritis, sciatica. By 1932 U. S. invalids were annually using 90,000 Ib. of cinchophen and its derivatives...
Besides these principal pegs on which Author Dos Passos hangs his narrative, scores of other characters appear, reappear and fade away. Eveline Hutchins, the Chicago Jazz-age girl, attains a Manhattan salon only to end her career with an overdose of sleeping powder. G. H. Barrow, labor-faker, gets a paunch and a fur overcoat by "settling" strikes. Ben Compton, a Brooklyn Jew turned radical and one of Mary French's lovers, finds his life ruined when he is read out of the Party for being a "disrupting influence." All of them - in politics, manufacturing, advertising, Wall Street...