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...would be impossible, however, to spoil completely so good a story as that of the career of Benjamin Thompson, born in Woburn, Massachusetts, and Subsequently a Count of the Holy Roman Empire. He was as quarrelsome as he was captivating, as erratic as he was able. He was first a Loyalist spy in the Colonies, then Under-Secretary of State in England, Minister of War in the court of Bavaria, founder of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and the generally accredited discover of the theory that heat is a form of motion. He laid out the Englische Garten...
Alabama's Rose Bowl champions got started when Center Kay Francis intercepted a pass, rallied to spoil Georgia's undefeated record...
...what His Majesty's Government lately told the House of Commons is officially "one of the most vital spheres of British interest." In past decades concessions obtained by British promoters from unwary potentates have repeatedly enabled British diplomats, often years afterward, to wangle, bluff and bludgeon much Empire spoil into the bag. From this point of view the Lion's left paw seemed well placed last week...
...John L. Sullivan at a café; on the same night he is so overwhelmed by hearing Lillian Russell sing for the first time that he buys her $100 worth of roses. If his relations with both Lillian Russell (Binnie Barnes), who refused to marry him because it might spoil their friendship, and Jane Matthews (Jean Arthur), who refused because she was in love with his best friend, are shown as childishly innocent, this bow to censorship does not seriously impair the picture's conception of its hero as a vain, generous, clever, sentimental bon vivant, capable of committing...
...chapter on Anger. Repressed rage is one of man's grandest endowments, and I wouldn't give a straw for a man who couldn't on occasion bite a crowbar in two in pure dancing fury. But-don't do it; you simply spoil the crowbar or break a tooth...