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...poison gas, liquid fire, mob massacre, would make Hollywood producers tremble not only at the moral shock this might cause on the box-office front, but in itself would necessitate the hire of air fleets and duels, a Cathedral and High Mass, hordes of soldiers, five tanks "bigger and uglier than any contemporary tanks," a battleship which explodes - and, on top of all this, New York's East Side tenements would have to be first bombed, then swept into the sea. . . . Mr. Wells was unhappy when he finished The King Who Was a King. Reason...
...Grand Duke Cyril, he has lost the allegiance of thousands of Russian emigres who are satisfied: 1) that Cyril intrigued with revolutionaries against Nicholas II, and was well content when the Tsar was sent to Siberia (where he was later assassinated); 2) that as the revolution assumed an uglier phase Cyril was the only one of the Grand Dukes to proclaim himself "republican," and thus managed to remain snug in his palace at Petrograd, long after other Romanovs were exiled and many murdered; 3) that the Grand Duke Cyril actually renounced his imperial prerogatives, in a panic, and called himself...
False Weight? Although crimination and recrimination moved hot and quick last week, between U. S. and British delegates, via the press, no charge made was uglier than this: that the British Admiralty systematically lists its war boats at about five-sixths of their real tonnage, according to U. S. measurements...
Alaunts Double, a bulldog as scarred and seamed and magnetically ugly as a Prussian duelist. Owned by Lee & Rawes of Philadelphia. There was an even uglier dog in this class, Sensible Fred, owned by Thomas Grisdale of New York. But he was not quite so sound as Alaunts, and soundness, in a bulldog, is more important even than spectacular hideousness...
...When we started", Mr. Warner explained, "we had no idea of what we were going to find, but the results of the trip have surpassed our expectations. Some of the pure art will be sent to the Fogg Museum, while the uglier stuff, interesting from the archaeological point of view, will go to the Peabody Museum. We were not out for vandalism, however, and very little of what we found will be brought here, although our measurements and photographs will be of great interest...