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...grimy spot in vain...
Rumors of their relationship preceded them. When they stopped in Dresden, an Englishwoman there wrote: "Lord Nelson thinks of nothing but Lady Hamilton, who is totally occupied by the same object. She is bold, forward, coarse, assuming and vain. Her figure is colossal, but, excepting her feet, which are hideous, well-shaped. Her bones are large and she is exceedingly embonpoint." In England the mob shouted hoarse applause but society whispered. Nelson was heaped with formal honors and financial rewards, but he and Emma were received nowhere. Nelson's wife formally left him. Before old Sir William died, with...
...Samurai brother-in-law's sacrifice was in one respect vain. Admiral Okada, after his spectacular "resurrection," found it impossible to remain Premier because of pressure from the middle-aged Japanese Radical-Militarists whose young Army assassins so narrowly failed to kill him. Admiral Okada last week had retired from office into deepest political oblivion-his career assassinated by weapons more subtle than the bullets which slew his brother...
...sure that many World War veterans will agree with you, possibly even a great majority of them that U. S. participation in the World War was in vain, that human life was sacrificed to rescue ill-placed private property. I am equally certain that World War veterans and good U. S. citizens stand almost united in condemning you for using the disabled for purposes of commercial advertising. Certainly every red-blooded citizen must denounce you for calling them "suckers...
...permission to remain a month in San Antonio to wind up his personal affairs before retiring like a bad schoolboy to his home at Columbia, S. C. In Washington Senator Byrnes and Representative McSwain, head of the House Military Affairs Committee, both of South Carolina, protested vigorously but in vain to Secretary Dern. So did Representative Blanton who got General Hagood permission to testify "freely." Republicans in the Senate made a political holiday of the case. Senator Metcalf called it "typical New Deal terrorism," asked for a Senate investigation. Senator Robinson, as angry as only that Democrat leader...