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...picture of the life of an "intellectual" under an unthinking, illogical government of uneducated proletarians is a very vivid one. Its chief feature is the sincere way in which it is painted. One sees poity prejudices and dislikes vanish before a willingness to do anything that will preserve life itself. The cumulative effect leads one to think that this book accomplishes its purpose: it presents a protest by a simple narration of events...
...Licenses. Unless Congress extends for another year the power of the President to license firms to do business under NRA, this club, so far unused, will vanish into thin air June...
...lethal gas. Private truckers under contract to the city's Sanitation Department call daily to collect carcasses, roll them out to Barren Island. There skinners pounce on horses and mules, cats with good fur. Horse hides make shoes, baseballs; cat hides which once became ladies' neckpieces, now vanish darkly into the Orient. Skinned carcasses are dumped in a big "digester," steamed to draw out fat. This is used for rough lubricating grease. Defatted remains are dried, ground up for fertilizer. Concessionaires pocket the profit...
Stand up, O homing phantom, stand up intact and declare The goodness of earth the greatest good you found, Ere the wind jolts you, and you vanish like the foam...
...Philadelphia, Negress Maude Roberts gave $60 to "Prince Ali Baba" for a "vanishing powder" so her sister could vanish from a Washington jail, had Prince Ali Baba (one Grant Reid) arrested when she failed to vanish...