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Most of his story is concerned with his excitingly sensible struggles against the traditional, noble boobery of muddled old England. Now that it is safely over, he admits it was a close shave. "Reckless and unintelligent handling brought us almost to the rim of catastrophe ... we were saved largely by the incredible folly of our foes." The thing that nearly got England down, says Lloyd George, was the submarine campaign. He implies that if the Admiralty had had their way, by June, 1917, England, and consequently the Allies, would have been spurlos versenkt. The Admiralty wanted more destroyers...
...Senator is, how far above "disciplining" by the State Department he really is. One of Minister Saavedra Lamas' secretaries announced: "The Argentine Government does not desire to make further issue of the matter, especially as the Senate committee is showing a tendency to prevent a continuance of the reckless, sensational and unfounded charges...
...seems to like even his own rogues. But most readers will have little sympathy with Captain Nicholas. He does not rise to the stature of a dark brooding Barry Lyndon. Neither is he a devil-may-care fellow who is his own worst enemy. Nor is he a gay, reckless, unscrupulous adventurer of the Gil Bias order. At best he is only a sawdust figure of a gentleman, at worst only a petty crook...
...travel to Chicago and collect his money. Because he had submitted his design from the office of John Mead Howells he had to turn $40,000 of his prize over to that New York architect. Soon he had all the commissions he wanted. A strident exponent of functionalism, a reckless experimenter, he gave his black American Radiator Building (Manhattan) a gold-flecked top to suggest burning coal, proudly pointed out that windows which usually look like ugly black holes, become invisible in a black building. By putting orange shades on the windows of the Daily News Building he used them...
...became obvious that he must return to Paris and intervene between Minister of State Herriot and Minister of State Tardieu, each of whom was demanding that the other resign. The shock of M. Tardieu's attack sent prices down on the Paris Bourse and many editors condemned as reckless and unpatriotic his attempt to rupture the Cabinet. In an effort to give Great Little Gaston all possible support President Albert Lebrun praised his "wisdom and prudence" in a formal speech at Aurillac, then declared...