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Against this ground lull, air action grew to new vigor on both sides. The British pounded Italian bases in Rhodes seven nights in a row, firing hangars and crumpling grounded planes. The Germans attacked British motorized transport in Libya, hit at Malta over & over, dropped huge parachute bombs onto Bengasi. The R. A. F. came back with an attack on the Nazi Stuka bases in Sicily. For five hours they shuttled past overhead, wheeling and diving on gasoline stores and bomb dumps. German reconnaissance pilots returned from a flight over Suez with photographs showing two vessels sunk in the channel...
...laws forbidding child labor. Nothing came of the agitation for some 15 years. Then, on Sept. 1, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Keating-Owen bill outlawing the products of child labor in interstate commerce. He said: "I know . . . what it is going to mean to the health and vigor of this country...
...difference between the indescribable hash E. Power Biggs makes of a Bach Chorale Prelude, and the superb gusto and vigor he puts into a Handel organ concerto, is to me one of the seven wonders. In the latest in the Victor series of Handel organ concertos, the Cuckoo and the Nightingale Concerto, Album M733 he plays most delightfully on the Baroque organ of the Germanic Museum to a spirited accompaniment by Arthur Fiedler's Sinfonietta. The concerto itself is a delightful one, and the whole album as successful a combination of Biggs, Victor, and Handel, as has yet appeared....Anyone...
...aging, ailing Goya became increasingly irksome. Stone deaf and myopic at 78, he got permission to leave the country, traveled to Paris "to see the world," finally settled among a group of Spanish refugees in Bordeaux. There, in 1828, still painting and drawing with all his old vigor and many a new-found trick, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes died. A scene he would have enjoyed came on a subsequent fantastic midnight when ghoulish phrenologists stole his skull from the Bordeaux graveyard. He left behind him as searing a legacy of propaganda as has ever come from...
...anyone, make a harsh sound by grinding their lower pharyngeal teeth together. Conger eels bark, schoolmasters sound as if they were delivering a lecture, and the oldwife gossips away with chirps and chatters. The male weakfish, during the mating season, vibrates his air bladder with such vigor that he can be heard six feet above water while he is sounding off from 50 feet under...