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...harbor the Rex, decked with code flags, received flag and siren salutes from liners, ferryboats and tugs, reached her pier amid frenzied cheering. After sounding the Rex's great whistle one last time Captain Tarabotto rushed into his cabin, "I cried like a child!" he said afterward. "I wept for my beloved dead mother that I could not send her news of this great...
...Dorchester's provincial-artistic society. When Musician Arenkoff was appointed conductor of the Phil harmonic Orchestra, John was told off to help him get settled. This was a pleasant enough job, and when Arenkoffs wife Nina arrived, John adored her at sight. Nina was intense: she often wept quietly for hours because life was so sad. She was also very beautiful and (according to Author Horgan) intelligent. Her principal fault was the fault of angels - ambition; she could not settle down anywhere with out trying to set the place spiritually to rights. In Dorchester she soon made a series...
...books. Chivalrous Mr. Ganson stood it quite a long time, then went to John and asked him to call Nina off. But by that time the mischief was done: heartless Mr. Ganson had fallen in love with her. When Nina discovered how much too well she had succeeded, she wept, cheered up. went away, leaving John, Mr. Ganson and Dorchester repining...
...small advertisement in a newspaper saying that he would conduct it. He describes the effect: "The people did not stay away. They broke down the doors and pushed aside the attendants, saying 'to hell with you!' and the ladies threw fans and the men cheered and some wept and they took 40 sticks away from me for souvenirs...
...cocksure commissars dismissed Jews, created jobs for Nazis, tinkered production while cowed factory managers swore, wept and tore their hair. Results have met their worst fears. German business has slumped, not soared (TIME. July 10). Last week even Adolf Hitler could see that Nazi commissars had become too much of a luxury. They were all dismissed and German businessmen were heartened by a statement from Herr Gottfried Feder, famed "Ideologist" of the Nazi Party, who was appointed fortnight ago to a dominant post in the Ministry of Economics. Cried Herr Feder...