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...tour against McKinley and he lost the election. Then came the Spanish War, and he served as Colonel in the Nebraska infantry, although he saw no field service. When 1900 rolled around he was back in the Presidential arena crying "no imperialism" because of the annexation of Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippines. Again he was nominated, again defeated by McKinley...
...this decentralized system each Administrator is to have charge of one district, which is coextensive with one of the 22 Federal Judicial districts or Hawaii, or Porto Rico. Under him will be a First Assistant in charge of "permissive" work with chemists and pharmacists, and a Second Assistant in charge of enforcement work with trained investigators and detectives. A legal advisor will also be attached to each district. The aim: "economy and efficiency . .. . a smaller personnel with higher qualifications...
...taproot. Having drifted from New Orleans to Texas to Paris to Biarritz, Vienna, Palermo, Rome, London, she was as native to one bit of geography as another. Nor could people, any person, hold her. She saw through them, always had her own way. Her best lover, impetuous, paint-daubing Rico, she had subjugated. Now he was merely the futile, shallow Sir Henry Carrington, would-be London society painter, her husband. Their relation had paled to nervous platonism, Lou doubting there was a man who could think quickly and far enough, love largely enough, to fulfill her. Rico looked anxiously after...
...bought him, St. Mawr the bay stallion, and made Rico ride him. Rico had known horses as a boy in Australia and to fear St. Mawr angered him beyond control. One day, in St. Mawr's own country, near the Devil's Chair in Wales, Rico screamed at the rearing horse and dragged him over backwards. St. Mawr lashed and strained to rise, his neck arched cruelly, his mad eyes leaping from their sockets. Crushed beneath, Rico still reined the immense horse to earth...
...galloped for brandy, Lou felt that the earth was flooded with evil, the positive evil that reins mankind to earth, keeping an unruptured surface over mankind's internal hemorrhage. As soon as possible, she went away with her mother and St. Mawr. Rico wanted St. Mawr shot or castrated, but Lou got him away to Texas-where he shed his deity on the wide, empty plains and made advances to a tall Texas mare...