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...existence in the Black Valley. Here East meets West with as little mutual comprehension as Mr. Foster found in India. The pointed spire of the Compound Church pricks a sky too old to mind such petty prodding, and the Reverend Alurid Wilberforce's proselyting pricks even less effectively the soverign sufficiency of heathenism and of life. Tragedy grimaces from the Inland Sea, tragedy, modified at intervals, by humor, satiric, satisfying. And when one sees the figure of the old preacher and priest. Alurid, pathetic in his own futility, planning the lives of his family and friends quite with out success...

Author: By Donald S. Gibbs, | Title: The Way of the Proselyte | 3/13/1926 | See Source »

...womanly Queen and a queenly woman. Nearing the age of 50, she is no longer beautiful, but attractive. Philippe Millet, distinguished French journalist, once remarked of her: "As she enters a room she seems at the first glance to dominate all those present. She receives their homage as a soverign should and has the air of reigning, even when she says 'good day.' The chair on which she sits, perfectly erect, immediately becomes a throne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Regal Authoress | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

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