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...Hercules" furled sail at Samos. The emissaries who were to have met Lord Byron were gone, one fled, the other captive. Ibrahim Pasha swept over Greece with fire and sword and torture, sleek with the returns which captives brought in the Egyptian slave-market. The English Lord fretted in stagnation...
...often been remarked that heavy traffic in the Yard is for the most part as unnecessary as it is annoying. There is a serious question whether the sleek and oleaginous vans of the carriage tradesman or the monstrous drays of the express companies threaten pensive scholar and woolgathering student the more. Perhaps the one, stalking in his quiet, feline approach, is the worse for life and limb, the other the more menacing to sanity as it honks and howls and rumbles and clatters. At any rate the intruders are a nuisance...
...Squat little Mischa Mischakoff still plays first violin for Chicago, lean young Alfred Wallenstein the 'cello for Manhattan, with Bruno Jaenicke behind him blowing himself red in the face over his French horn. Boston still has Richard Burgin playing first violin. Jean Bedetti first 'cello. In Philadelphia sleek Anton Torello still wields the big bull fiddle; Oscar Schwar, who was a drummer-boy in the Imperial German Army, still presides over the tympani...
...long in Germany is not numbered smart Emil Ludwig (né Cohn), best-selling biographer of Napoleon, Bismarck and Wilhelm II. He has had a Swiss home for years, skipped Germany just before Adolf Hitler seized the powers of Dictator. Last week Dr. Ludwig sailed into Manhattan on the sleek French liner Paris. With an air of detachment proper in so prosperous an exile as himself he warned Jews and other citizens of the world not to blind themselves to the fact that "Hitler suits the German character. . . . What is going on there now is not the forcible rule...
...derby hat and the biggest barroom on the Bowery. He dis trusts women, entertains a sentimental regard for a waif called Swipes (Jackie Cooper) whose favorite pastime is throwing stones through the windows of a Chinese laundry. Steve Brodie (George Raft ) is a different type of Bowery sport, a sleek, rakish gambling man, envious of Connors' prestige. When Connors befriends a respectable girl (Fay Wray) to the extent of letting her be his cook, slick Brodie promptly makes her his fiancée. When Connors gives little Swipes a spanking which causes him to run away, Brodie gives...