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...Sovietland corroborated the fact that Trotsky had retired to his country palace, but authoritatively stated that he had been ordered by doctors to rest for two months, owing to "weakness of both body and spirit, the result of a mysterious malady developing during the past three months, whose marked symptom was a wasting, intermittent fever." This despatch inferred that the rumors in Russia about Trotsky were more numerous than those received by the outside world, and that the political dispute of which Trotsky is the center, was "so hot as to mislead some of the Communists themselves...
...inference follows that symphony orchestras must be supported by wealthy individuals who are willing to lay out large sums in the interest of music and in the interest of their own prestige as music patrons. It may be mentioned, as a rather fine symptom, that prestige as a music patron counts in America...
...TIME, Aug. 6). He doubted that Germany would be able to pull through her present chronic ailment and said that "the internal disruption of Germany which we had all along feared, but which we had consistently been told to regard as a bogy ... is not merely an ominous political symptom; it has pretentious economic significance, for it means the ultimate disappearance of the debtor himself." The tenor of his speech was distinctly anti-French, a fact which caused Lloyd George's heart to rejoice and M. Poincare's hair to rise in anger. He said that Britain awaited...
...most distressing symptom, however, is the attitude of some well-to-do and intelligent people who protest against the justice and wisdom of the law, and who treat with levity its violations when such violations serve to furnish them the wines and liquors they wish to have for their own enjoyment...
...that he should refrain from reading the newspapers. Mr. Mencken's translation may be and undoubtedly is as uninspired as all the rest of the prose and verse which has been done into American, but none of it is worth a rhetorical flourish. Mr. Mencken is a symptom, not a disease...