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...have thought she was a fatal woman: Bly drowned himself because of her while Britt was killed defending her fair name. Author Burke, true to her literary gods, cannot ring down on her heroine the curtain she deserves: the book ends with Ishma in her prison cell hearing the thunder of proletarian feet rushing to release...
...Author. In his 50 years Frederick Britten Austin has written some 20 blood & thunder volumes, most of them characterized by grandiose imaginative conceptions. Thus The Red Flag dealt with the progress of revolution through the ages while his interminable A Saga of the Sword described in terms of romance the development of war from prehistoric times. Born in London, he attended the Grocers' Company School and Hackney Downs, enlisted in the British Army in 1914, was demobilized in 1919 with the rank of captain. His first literary success came during the War. when he wrote a story about...
Jack thought he might have had something last week. He did; he had morale, and that's about all that saved his train-tired team at West Point. Even Johnny Dorman wasn't up to his usual game at center halfback, and what thunder was to be stolen went to the money man Manheimer and a Sophomore threat, Theodore P. Robie...
...expected thunderbolt did not strike last Saturday. But there were certain rumblings which sounded very much like distant thunder. Probably some time will be required for perfecting but it certainly seems that Coach Harlow is entitled to a basic patent on his machine. At any rate, what he has done in his three short weeks calls for congratulations and hope. But at the first game of the season, the attitude of the spectators was so artistically phlegmatic that it is impossible to become vitriolic in denouncing it. As a dramatic achievement the unbroken calm of the grandstands surpasses anything...
...never lost her composure during her arrest, questioning, imprisonment, trial, or execution. When a bystander lifted her bloody head and slapped the face, a murmur of rage swept through the crowd. A summer storm that had roared over the scene suddenly passed, the skies grew light and the thunder & lightning ceased...