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...secretary and two guardian Fascisti for safety, Deputy Giovanni Amendola left Montecatini for the nearby town of Pistoja amid a bombardment of sibilant Italian hisses. In the open country two automobiles barred the road. The Amendola car stopped, instantly the party was set upon by about 15 stalwart Fascisti and soundly clubbed. At Pistoja, a few minutes later, the Deputy was found to be suffering from shock, numerous contusions and some nasty cuts. Nothing dangerous developed and he was shipped back to his home in Rome...
...Chamber then became orderly. The Communists reentered, escorted to their seats by stalwart sergeants-at-arms, who remained as a bodyguard. The Fascisti once more broke into raucous approval of their hero-leader and debate began on the Government's foreign policy...
...guests of the same host. Within the space of ten minutes I had talked with them both and was struck with the fact that Mencken the writer corresponds to Sherman the man, and vice versa. Mencken has the almost perfect social sense. The editor of The American Mercury is stalwart, hearty, genial, lovable. He is so entirely forthright that one is immediately impressed with the fact that he is at heart a Puritan. He exudes stern morality. He is obviously a good mixer and not prejudiced at all. It is quite evident the moment one has shaken his hand, that...
...opportunity for the business interests of Portland, entrenched in the regents board, to deflect the college from its doubtful toying with ideas. The new president, Mr. Norman Coleman, was leader of the war time movement to oust the I. W. W. from mines and lumber camps. He is a stalwart defender of the political and social dogmata of the chamber of commerce, and accepts as his standard the business man's stamp of O. Keness...
What an amazing man he is. Simple, stalwart, with his waving hair, his clinging eyes, his dreamy voice? yet for all this shyness, this modesty, both in personality and in print, a furious and insistent egotist. His future, it seems to me, depends largely on his ability or inability to come to some conclusion about himself. He should go a step farther in his egocentric career. He should come out boldly to himself with the statement that he undoubtedly believes what many of his critics announce. Why not say it out loud, Mr. Anderson: "I am the American Balzac...