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...vain Palmer protested that the Observer had done him wrong. Archaeologists and philologists assailed him from all sides. Surviving friends came valiantly to Sir Arthur's defense. "My eye!" said Sir John Forsdyke, onetime director of the British Museum. "If there had been any jiggery-pokery, subsequent investigation would have been bound to reveal...
...ammunition ship La Coubre in Havana harbor, has repeated its accusation in Castro speeches and in pamphlets distributed by Cuban ambassadors throughout Latin America. The U.S. put up with such slander, but, said the State Department note in its key sentence, "this exercise of restraint has been in vain...
...before I had a chance to teach the book even one day, Principal (of Male High School) W. S. Milburn, also president of the Louisville board of aldermen and a member of Citizens for Decent Literature, banned the book-without reading it. I protested in vain. Indeed, it was the unheard-of defiance in protesting such a dictum that led to my dismissal...
...Serantes so far lacks solid church backing, the fact remains that he is Cuba's most respected prelate. "Not in vain," said he, "have some clear-sighted persons been preparing to fight those who try to impose the heavy yoke of the new slavery...
Hers has been the routine existence of a careful housewife, a faithful, even timid mate, a concerned mother. Now, around her in the hospital, she sees too many examples of human ugliness-women near death who can still be petty, cruel, gluttonous and vain. Yet she still has an eye for a youngster at play, for courting pigeons, for flowers. Author van Velde triumphs over her unattractive little world by accepting it for what it is. just as Mrs. Van der Veen, with all her fears, remains a figure of dignity till the end. Without tricks-and without sentimentality...