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...sharing an idea with his "wee wifiekin," as when he was moved by the human and physical blight of the Industrial Revolution on a South Wales town: "The town might be ... one of the prettiest places in the world, and it is one of the sootiest, squalidest and ugliest ... It is like a vision of Hell, and will never leave me, that of those poor creatures broiling, all in sweat and dirt, amid their furnaces, pits and rolling mills...
...recently startled a woman at a cocktail party by saying cheerfully: "I'm Roger Kyes, the ugliest-looking man in Washington...
...Bertrand Russell . . . was small, dark, brisk, with a lively air and a hyena laugh. According to some people he was the ugliest man they had ever seen ... He had birth, genius, learning, indefatigable zeal and energy, brilliant intelligence and absolute honesty and courage ... Yet on the whole, relative to his capacities, he was a failure. He petered...
...that RFC has a new and vigorous boss, a lot of skeletons are coming out of the closet. Last week, Administrator W. Stuart Symington opened the door on what looked like the biggest, ugliest skeleton of all: RFC's $87 million loan to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, largest ever given to any U.S. railroad, during the regime of Jesse Jones. In the last eight years, the B. & 0. has paid back only $6,800,000, although the road is fat with profits. (Other roads have paid back 80% of their RFC loans...
...trained seals are back at last. The freaks, as usual, are the ugliest persons ever assembled in one basement, especially the Cuban Troubadors, last year's Hula Girls. Afficianados will note with distaste that the modern circus still has too much of the ballet, the burlesque, and the "Regal Cavalcade with Queen Marie Antoinette and her Gay Court of The Royal Horse Show in the Forest of Fontaineblean." But even so nauseous a spectacle as Sixty Alluring Aloha Girls Aloft can be reclaimed by watching Pinito Del Oro in the center, standing no-hands on a swinging trapeze...