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Also at the R.K.O. is an English thriller, The Young Scarface, that gives a rather accurate picture of England's seamy side. It traces the bloody path of a razor wielding cut-throat as he hacks his way from London's slums to Brighton Beach. DAVID C.D. ROGERS
Cronin recognized the value of this arduous work, but when a shrewd Scotsman from whose throat he had neatly extracted a herring bone gave him a stock-market tip, he was dazzled by the chance to get rich quick. Planking down his hard-earned savings of ?100, he saw them swell miraculously to ?1,000 in a few days. But he was out on the moors, delivering a baby, when his stock crashed, leaving him ?7. Cronin decided that he had learned another priceless lesson; he dug into his pocket to buy the newborn baby a silver mug, inscribed with...
...none of the tests impressed FTC. It stuck to its earlier findings that tobacco itself is the major irritant in cigarettes, and that all cigarettes are about equally irritating. Accordingly, it forbade Philip Morris from making any further claims that its cigarettes are "less irritating," and that "outstanding nose & throat specialists" recommend them for their patients who smoke...
...neglected veterans of Waterloo and the martyrs of Peterloo (hundreds of hungry English weavers shot down by the militia for protesting their working conditions). Shelley wrote: "I Met Murder on the way-He had a Mask like Castlereagh." In 1822, in a fit of depression, Castlereagh slit his throat with a penknife...
...enveloped her breasts and her face, her throat, her tired belly, her knees, her thighs and her feet. She lay with shut eyes, the colour of rosy flame through her lids ... She reached and put leaves over her eyes. Then she lay again, like a long white gourd in the sun, that must ripen to gold ... She was beginning to feel warm right through. Turning over, she let her shoulders dissolve in the sun, her loins, the backs of her thighs, even her heels. And she lay half stunned ... (page...