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...Indian culture educated him out of humor with Western civilization. "Very humbly and hopefully'' he went to Benares, holy city of the Hindus, there to sit at the feet of Theosophist Annie Besant, to see her youthful embryo-Messiah Krishnamurti. In between expeditions to Nautch girls and in search of a guru (teacher) he played polo, stuck "pigs" (wild boars). He gives a vivid description of a polo match, a no less vivid account of what it feels like to chase a boar, try to pin it with a lance-thrust. Says he: "In the open, the odds are against...
...Democratic stand on Prohibition did much to lift the party above their rather lack-lustre past for some years. The United States has been irked by the procrastination of the Republicans where this issue is concerned. The Democratic landslide was as much a search for remedies as an expression of public faith. The repeal of the Baby Volstead Act in Massachusetts may well cast its shadow on the national elections...
...relative merits of every volume that has ever been published can be of little assistance and importance to the average intelligent reader. Analyses of this sort lead into the land of vague generalization where perhaps the traveller might find some of the characters of Mr. Walpole wandering in search of the rose-water sentimentalities of Mr. Phelps...
Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago thrust his heavy hands last week into the tomb of the late Senator Joseph Medill McCormick of Illinois in search of old political bones with which to frighten the city's 75,000 Negro voters out of their Republican wits. What he ghoulishly drew forth was the wraith of Chicago's great race riot of July 27-Aug. 2, 1919. This he hurled anonymously at the Senator's widow, Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, now the Republican nominee for the Senate against Democrat James Hamilton Lewis...
...when he starts out to help Caryl find Fenella, the girl Caryl loves, the girl who has sworn eternal love to him. Caryl again sits by while Sebastian's fraternal motives are overcome by something warmer. After Venice, where his ambition has foundered, and the Dolomites, where the search for Fenella and Sebastian's conquest of her has taken place, Caryl goes to London. Sebastian follows, continuing his bland usurpation of Caryl's life. The reasons for these happenings are bona fide. They are found in Sebastian's genius, in his egotism, his self-sufficiency, which...