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...invariably the hero of his own self-created myth, and because he could write all his contem poraries under the table, his version of events tended to survive longer than anyone else's. The famous, ponderous six-volume biography by Moneypenny and Buckle, published in 1920, often fell prey to this charm beyond the grave. It also abetted the myth-later given its crudest expression in the George Arliss film of 1929-of Dizzy as a brilliant theatrical Jew, triumphing over early poverty and snobbery to create the British empire singlehanded and present it to Queen Victoria like...
...could not, to salvage it and its cargo. He succeeded so well that his firm, joined by two others, grew into Merritt-Chapman & Scott, the nation's largest corporation involved in marine salvage, and later a construction giant as well. But eventually, Merritt-Chapman & Scott itself fell prey to raiders of a modern sort. As a result, the company has been sinking slowly-to the point where its officers announced last week that they will propose liquidation when shareholders meet next month...
...cast, looking vaguely lost in Chagall's vast fantascapes, nonetheless performed elegantly. Mozart Specialist Josef Krips conducted manfully against the visual competition, and Baritone Hermann Prey's comical Papageno was as close to a show stealer as the conditions would permit. Chagall's whimsical spectacular notwithstanding, there was too much art and not enough Mozart...
...once thought I knew the answer to this question; but after reading the fatuous rationalizations offered for I'affaire CIA-NSA, I'm not quite sure. Innocence, it seems, is strictly for the birds (of prey. . . .) Martin Kilson Assistant Professor of Government
...Relatively few major crimes are interracial. For the most part, criminals prey upon their own race and economic group...