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Gustave Hervé, editor-in-chief of the Victoire, who in 1917 was foremost in the clamor for Clemenceau, and who is now believed to speak for the Elysee, wrote thus of Premier Poincaée: "It is most regrettable that a man who is so upright, a patriot so sincere, a worker so prodigious, should fail France which counted so much on him. By whom can he be replaced? Is there none better among our politicians? Yes, there is old Clemenceau and his team. They made the Treaty of Versailles which was not perfect, which was not as good...
...Planks" of necessity they are, but they fit directly into a scaffolding. And the scaffolding itself suggests a finer structure of which it has only been possible to sketch the elevation. If any nails are to be driven home to ensure the stability of even one upright, the only student body capable of driving them is the representative council. If, as has been so far promised by vague rumorings, it shakes off its former lethargy, it can wield to effect the hammer it has long unconsciously held...
...mistress of the farm was lovely Arlette, whom the village thought half-demented -Scevola had saved her body from the massacre that exterminated her Royalist parents, but the memory of the shrieks and the blood of that massacre still walked like a ghost through her mind. Her aunt, the upright, deliberate, tireless Catherine, asserted her a doomed object of God's particular wrath, a fatal woman, not for any man's arms...
...call him to account for his protection of Bent Bushyager? his second marriage and the beginning of his fame as a newspaper- paragrapher?his final happiness. Vivid characters move across the spacious stage of the story: Fremont's great-hearted mother with her pipe and her commonsense; Raws Upright; Captain Ashe and his three pretty daughters; Paul Holbrook, the local "dude' and amateur politician. There is a certain largeness of incident and method like that of the prairies themselves...
...telegram from Rear Admiral Sumner E. W. Kittelle, Commander of the Destroyer Squadron of the Battle Fleet: "Seven vessels landed on Pedernales Point [75 miles north of Santa Barbara]. Fuller, badly on rocks, listed 20 degrees starboard; Woodbury, same, listed 40 degrees port; Chauncey, high up inside rocks, and upright; Young, on beam end, three-quarters submerged; Delphy, on beam end, three-quarters submerged and broken in half: S. P. Lee, on beach under cliffs, listed 20 degrees port; Nicholas, broadside on beach, listed 20 degrees starboard...