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Heroine Erne Gallows is an orphaned Scotch girl, strong, passionate, beautiful. From her sailor father she inherits a reckless temper, an honest eye. The villagers mistrust her independence; they get drunk at her wedding but think her husband a queer, weak sort of man for her to pick. They are enlightened and glad when she is pregnant before her time. Her lover comes to the fair; there is a brawl, her husband is killed. Effie marries the schoolteacher, who has always loved her; a few months later her child is born, but it is weakly, and soon dies. Then...
...would seize the volume but only a judge and jury could pass upon its obscenity, order its destruction. The book importer would have all the privileges of appeal to the highest court. Senator Cutting declared himself satisfied with this liberalizing compromise, predicted that Customs agents would not be so reckless in seizing books if their opinions had to go before a court. Senator Smoot, happy that censorship had been restored, felt that the country had been saved...
...greatest fighting orators the House of Commons ever knew. He it was who introduced U. S. blood into the great house of Churchill by marrying Jenny Jerome of New York. Today the father of pink-and-white is the Conservative party's spearhead in debate, scathing, reckless, romantic Winston Churchill, last year Chancellor of the Exchequer. And all are, of course, descendants of that ruthless and super-successful general, John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough. Stage-fright might well grip anyone expected to get up and talk like either Lord Randolph or "Winnie," but the boy seemed only...
...works hard, keeps in trim, can walk on his hands. In Los Angeles last summer he was arrested for reckless driving. Next day he was arrested again because he still felt so jolly that he had stood outside a café and squirted a hose on the café manager's automobile and on passersby. Tall, lean, industrious, he is seldom so jolly as that, though last week he was to be seen in Manhattan full of great cheers over a new M-G-M cinema contract, and his employers' extravagant advertising...
...citizens realize that he went out of office in 1909, that he was not Prime Minister of France during the first three years of the war. As editor of L'Homme Libre and, when that was suppressed, of L'Homme Enchaine, he preached such deathless, rampant patriotism, printed such reckless denouncements of even highest government officials when he suspected them of pacifism, that at first some thought him mad. In the end. all France saw him as the incarnate Will to Victory. In 1917 the allied reverses and the fall of the Painleve Cabinet left President Raymond Poincare an alternative...