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Love in the Tropics, a steam-heated drama of love in the tropics, was trite torment...
...that Valentine was his perfect complement, and knew it; and that he was off for the War. In No More Parades (1925) he endured a very special and ingenious kind of hell in a base camp, where his wife, Sylvia, and scandal about himself and Valentine, turned up to torment him and to hamper his official conduct as not even red tape and a thousand childish soldiers could have done. His maddening integrity, that alone, was the factor that saved a bad local situation and led indirectly to the establishment of a Single Command...
...letters reveal the torment, and in the last years of his existence he wrote to her that the happiest moments of his life had been spent with...
...torment to collegiate dudes who, unable to leave their eskimohair coats at home, sweltered in the New Jersey sun, a plunging Navy team came from behind to beat Princeton...
...treasures of his church. Lawrence produced the poor members of the congregation. The Judge had Lawrence burned alive on a gridiron. Why the Aug. 10 meteors should be named St. Lawrence's "tears," it is hard to say. For he was most brave in the midst of his torment. He is said to have exclaimed: "I am roasted enough on this side; turn me over...