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...mixture of both. The wildest brawls and ruddiest language of Kipling's soldiers can be read unblushingly in a drawing-room. Private Richards' report, though peaceably expressed, is truer to bachelor life. Old Soldier Sahib has an honest animal smell, as exciting to plain citizens as a whiff from a lion's cage...
...readers Letters to Harriet will bring many a whiff from the plushy past. Hoosier-born (1869), William Vaughn Moody worked his way through Harvard, went on into graduate pastures, then started the climb to Parnassus by the academic path. It was while he was teaching English at the University of Chicago that he met "Harriet," who kept alive the torch of culture by all-night literary conversaziones around a lakeshore bonfire. When his drudged-out textbook's success set him free to travel and write for himself, Moody and Harriet kept their friendship going by mail. His letters were...
...Beaumarchais honest, for with a queer, premonitory genius he created, not records of what had happened, but symbolic representations of what was to come. In the poisonous atmosphere of France of his time, he responded in the way that birds taken into coal mines respond to the first faint whiff of gas, to developments of which less sensitive spirits were unconscious. When the Revolution actually broke out, he was horrified. Forced to run for his life, he was imprisoned, exiled. The only time he ever realized his ambition to mingle on equal terms with the nobility was when...
...spirit in such assorted sodalities as the National Association for Advancement of Colored People, All World Gandhi Fellowship War Resisters League. In 1919 he broke with the Unitarians, established his own independent Community Church. While giving Dr. Holmes full marks for nobility of purpose, pragmatic spectators got a strong whiff of the parsonage in If This Be Treason's incorrigible unreality. Show folk credited the play with about as much dramatic savoir-faire as a Sunday School cantata. Even his most devoted parishioners could not find much novelty in Dr. Holmes's and Collaborator Lawrence's dialog...
...been a holy terror all his life to every regiment he has honored by inspection. Unlike Nephew George V, whose object on such occasions is to have everything go off smoothly, Uncle Arthur feels it is his solemn duty to find rusty bayonets, loose buttons and noses with a whiff of liquor on them. Of a certain colonel the Duke once said, "He is just able to walk straight. That is sober enough for a civilian but very drunk for a soldier!" One of Field Marshal the Duke of Connaught's little rules, which he scrupulously observes: "No officer...