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Hero Coe left her for a flawlessly lovely pianist, with a mouth "well-shaped and bee-blown and neatly outlined in some wet red unguent." Her name was Roxane. When she began to romp with Abner, Roxane neglected to mention that she had married his best friend. So after Abner went to war, he spent his furloughs pursuing her through the back streets of married love. The U.S. State Department in Paris decided Abner should be given U.S. papers. He made his way to safety in America, while Roxane and her husband died as hostages before a Nazi firing squad...
...Majesty is precisely the fly in the Irish unguent of freedom. King George may seem a mere emblem to the English, to the Canadians and even...
...they never so great, must bow before the electorate-the sovereign mob-and thus, last week, so great a statesman as Premier Raymond Poincaré, Wartime President of France, journeyed out to Bar-le-Duc and made before constituents his annual kotow. . . . He told them with a little unguent flattery that they and the electorate at large have returned such excellent deputies and senators that his own task-that of restoring financial and political stability to France out of chaos within ten months-has been comparatively simple. (A wink went round, for most of the audience know well how very...
Commentators could not help detecting one fly in the unguent, and greatly fearing another. The first, visible, was that out of the total circulation of the 153 journals, but 125,000 answered, which is about one-third the circulation of a single one of them, the New York World (309,386). The second (a natural suspicion) was that only zealots (believers and unbelievers) had gone to the trouble of marking ballots and mailing...
...conclusively in favor of a pimply young man named Todd?and Jeffrey went to the modern devil of our age, who is not a merry companion, for a while. But he mended himself with courage and the memories of an old and youthful content?snow-water and the unguent of irony?a gorgeous fistfight released him from certain delusions?Joan's path crossed his again, as it always seemed to do when he was most hopeless. She had always been in love with him?and now he fell in love with her. They were married, and for a month...