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...Diamond indictment and subsequent assault released a torrent of indignation in Greene County, whose citizenry foresaw that its nest of city rats was about to ruin the summer tourist trade. Thereupon, Governor Roosevelt, preparing to sail for Paris to visit his aged mother who is ill with influenza, appointed Attorney General John James Bennett Jr. to supersede the local prosecutor, clean up the Catskill's gangster colony...
...might have struggled by. After all, the average reader unassimilated to its background will not pause to distinguish between creativeness and photography. But the author has taken a cause, has attempted to find the Universal in a mining town. It may be there, but his efforts to prove "the torrent and ecstasy of life" are hopelessly inadequate. The love of John Donnelly, a raw Irish miner, for Zola, an alluring if somewhat incongruous prostitute, forms what plot and motivation there is. With a painstaking that is almost embarrassing. Mr. Brinig devotes himself to an exhaustive analysis of his characters...
...grateful letter of thanks, H. R. H. absolved the Church of England or "High Church" from any stigma of having criticized him, referred with withering contempt to the "torrent of abuse [heaped] upon me not only by the Press, but by the Low Church and especially the Non-conformists...
...surprising to receive a torrent of invective from high Legion officials, Boston politicians, and blind boosters of Americana in response to the CRIMSON'S editorial comment on the degeneracy of carnival spirit displayed at the recent convention. Men of selfish motives or blind patriotic impulse have a way of attacking sincere criticism of vicious conditions rather than vice itself...
...Graves Commission will guard and protect it forever as a national monument. Sadly Donor Calder admitted that in the intervening years tourists have snitched from Hill No. 60 nearly everything snitchable. Meanwhile what was David Lloyd George doing last week? Age cannot sap his energy nor custom stem the torrent of his words and plans. In London he went to his barber, emerged in a new and startling nakedness shingled & shorn of the traditional Lloyd Georgian mop. Spruce as ever he addressed a Liberal rally at Stowmarket-nothing special, just all in the year's work. It so happened...