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...self-made soldier was a hero on the battlefield has never been made more clear. In Connecticut, in Canada, on Lake Champlain and at Saratoga, he fought with the kind of superb gallantry that lesser men might call foolhardy. But Arnold off the field was a different man. Vain, querulous and greedy, he loved rank at least as much as he loved his country, and was not above using his position to line his pocket through fishy and degrading commercial deals. That he betrayed his country for reasons of political principle, Author Flexner shows to be sheer nonsense. Arnold wanted...
...months the Itakuras dug in vain. The local villagers thought that the presence of the Itakuras was bad for tourist business, and sneered at them: "You are fools; why don't you give up?" The Itakuras...
...turning point, bringing fame and money, came with The Egoist, in which the humiliations of the vain man were described as never before or since. "A complete set of nerves not heretofore examined," said Robert Louis Stevenson, "and yet running all over the human body-a suit of nerves." "A young friend of Mr. Meredith's," Stevenson added, "came to him in an agony. 'This is too bad of you,' he cried. 'Willoughby is me!' 'No, my dear fellow,' said the author...
Those without local connections searched in vain for the wide open parties they had known back at Colgate. There, a visitor to the school was, by definition, a welcome guest at the large fraternity parties where the door was never locked and people staggered in and out. If, before the game they had seen the commons rooms, it was there that they often expected a post-game house party. And after all, hadn't that fellow in the flannel suit said that you might call a House sort of a big fraternity. It made sense...
Died. Margaret Anna Bird Insull, 80, widow of Samuel Insull, onetime Midwest utilities czar; in Chicago. A noted Broadway beauty, she married Insull in 1899, and became a princess of Chicago society. She tried in vain to make a stage comeback at 42, ten years later sank $200,000 in a benefit production of The School for Scandal. In 1932, when the $3 billion Insull empire disintegrated, she fled to Europe with her husband, later urged him to surrender and face trial on charges of fraudulent bankruptcy and embezzlement. During Insull's famed trials and acquittals...