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...Then the volley of six rifles speaking as one sounded as the officer let his sword fall as the signal to fire. General Quijano dropped to the ground, his body convulsing. On orders from the officer, a soldier approached the quivering form and put the muzzle of his rifle against the general's head, pulled the trigger. Thus died General Quijano, brave to the last...
...tabulated and cross-indexed, if only to point a social moral or illustrate an economic trend? Nobody so humble or so proud but some official Boswell has captured him for an exhibit. The inquisitors get you from ambush anyhow, but if you expose yourself directly to the questionnaire volley by applying for something you are riddled, as at Harvard. You are filed, indexed, blue printed, graphed, annotated and footnoted; cultures and blood tests, so to speak, of your life from babyhood up are put on record. It is the tyranny of so-called efficiency, as "The Crimson" says, the Prussianism...
...seldom returns, put all the animus of constitutional vulgarity into its headline: "FIFl HURLS CUPS AND SALAD AT NEWSPAPER MEN." The Tribune account, a copy of which had to be toned down for the Tribune's New York offspring (Daily News), gloated over "the pottery barrage and the volley of language which accompanied it?language familiar to the gaudy-sashed lumberjacks but seldom heard at social functions." There was a besmirching leer in the Tribune's subhead: "Four Trucks of Booze." And when the bride and groom retired to the top floor of the Hotel Shelton, Manhattan, a Tribune correspondent...
...boots on the porch made him look out of the window. His yard was full of men. In long white robes they writhed with dismal laughter in the moonlight. They called to him "Come out, Simon." 'My wife's sick," he shouted through the window. A volley of revolver bullets spattered against the front door. Six men in white robes came after the bullets. They took Simon away and beat...
...made so manly a protest as the man of genius at Vienna who had composed the 'Sinfonia Eroica' and, with a grand republican simplicity inscribed it, 'Beethoven a Bonaparte'. When the master heard that his former hero had taken the imperial crown, he tore off the dedication with a volley of curses on the renegade and tyrant; and in later years he dedicated the immortal work to the 'memory' of a great...