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...stories of Hallem's sons, inheritors of his bitter spirit, of his wife, whom he alternately loved and hated, of Roiter's wife and children, many another minor but well-indicated character. Well and truly translated,- Duel does not read like a translation, has none of the queer woodenness of a foreign book...
...queer anniversary is the celebration every year by King Carol II and Crown Prince Mihai of the day when Playboy Carol, having flown home from philandering in Paris, snatched the Crown from fat, phlegmatic Boy King Mihai's head. Never seeming to mind his demotion to Crown Prince, 12-year-old Mihai stood with his father last week to receive the Fourth Anniversary homage offered by Rumanian mayors. Cried Carol, who now likes to strut the Dictator, echo Mussolini: "My slogan is work! Only through good work for the welfare of your country can you demonstrate your loyalty...
...besides his $45,000 Guarnerius, a $5 quarter-size violin on which he, aged 3, had learned to play. He had been in Russia for the first time since 1917 when he fled with his parents and sisters from their one-room home during the Revolution. The Russians had queer ideas of their countryman who was coming back to play for them. He would arrive with two Ethiopian bodyguards. His violin would be in a bright silver case. His wife would be either a Miss Ford or a Miss Rockefeller instead of Cinemactress Florence Vidor. Even so, there were Russians...
...stands today as a queer paradox: France, the democracy, a quiet pasture land for the world's most famous peasantry, coexisting with France, the greatest military power of modern times, with an army which all but equals in numbers and far surpasses in equipment Germany's vast militaristic machine...
Colonial America considered by many a dull, dry subject, is here pictured in an amusing, yet scholarly light. The lectures which could easily be boring and uninteresting contain much humor and many queer tales of "the other side" of our colonial ancestors. Although none of the essential factual detail is omitted, it is presented in a fashion which makes the hours pass rapidly and gives one more time and interest for the reading a thing which he well needs, for the assignments are not short and many of them hardly brim over with fascination...