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...have not time to pray," intoned the leader of a typical choral group. The mass response rolled back like thunder: "God will nevertheless understand us, for whoever consecrates his life to his nation will be honored by a blessed stand next to the Lord...
...this horrible climax, was "too tragic for any words," stopped writing, died. For European intellectuals the War meant more than the end of amiable illusions under which they had lived. The very problems that had occupied them- feminism, modern art, social progress- were made irrelevant and petty by the thunder of the conflict that raged off the intellectual stage...
...President Wilson ignored his warnings and pleas. When Thompson discovered that the Bolsheviki were gaining strength on their twin program-all power to the Soviets and land for the peasants-he studied the Soviets at work, learned that the common people obeyed their decisions, urged Kerensky to steal Bolshevik thunder and slogans...
Foreigners with no taste for such blood & thunder could have instead from Fascist Playwright Luigi Pirandello, as that Nobel Prizeman landed in Manhattan last week, a comparison of Abraham Lincoln to Benito Mussolini who is going to free the slaves of Ethiopia. People interested in neither atrocities nor slaves but with a taste for the mystic were provided for by Fascist Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio. "You are going to victory," he informed departing Italian volunteers. "It is so inexorable-I wish to say fatal- to conquer...
...much as $250 per head for the day's outing in a deluxe suite. Snapping their Kodaks, they caught the Victoria and Albert steaming up and down eight lanes of sheer, breathtaking Sea Power. Twenty-one-gun salutes rang agreeably in George V's ears-for the thunder of a three-pounder is not noise but music to His seagoing Majesty. That night the British Fleet was "lit up like a Portuguese Carnival"-as an admiring Portuguese diplomat remarked- but next day the King's delighted subjects were left behind, the floating grandstands were signaled...