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...finest, most applauded novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), Fitzgerald succeeded superbly in portraying the hollowness of his racketeer-hero's life. But it was not until the crash had turned his New York playground into an "echoing tomb" where "cocktail parties [rang] with [cries of] 'Shoot me, for the love of God, someone shoot me!' " that his tone grew truly grim. Even so, he still had money, good looks, devoted friends, popularity. His passion for work continued ; he sold stories to the richer magazines; he went to work in Hollywood...
...most eyes were on the 200 soldiers. Each of them carried a captured German flag bedecked with captured German medals. Suddenly the massed band stopped blaring. Only hundreds of drums rumbled. As the 200 soldiers approached Lenin's tomb, they lowered the German flags (including Hitler's personal standard) and dragged them over the muddy cobblestones. In front of Lenin's tomb, the soldiers, without turning their heads or breaking step, tossed the flags into...
...Where is the tomb of Theodoric...
...mattered little where the other one was, whether quavering in a Bavarian mountain fastness or raving mad in the tomb of Berlin-or dead, as the Hamburg radio this week reported. For him, too, the curtain had come down...
...President of the U.S. ... a nephew of the King of England, and [owner of] the tongue of a five-clawed dragon." Twenty American gunboats lay on the Whangpoo, simply waiting for him to whistle them up to shell his enemies to bits. He was familiar with the tomb of General Grant, and hailed from Pittsburgh - a spot that in piety ranked second only to 156 Fifth Avenue (Presbyterian Headquarters...