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...whose parents had been murdered came to the bandits, begged mercy, food. Ogreish, the murderers amused themselves by seizing the legs and arms of the smaller children and literally tearing them to pieces. Older boys and girls were stripped, then flogged, or maimed, killed or set free at the whim of their captors...
City officials acted at once, backed by strong public opinion. City officials thanked the World for arousing the helpful opinion, as did ministers, spinsters, reformers. The World's circulation went up that week very rapidly and its editors could congratulate themselves that, in gratifying a whim of the business department they had performed a typical World re-form for the city. More than ever was the World the self-styled "D'Artagnan of journalism," for it was that lusty Gascon who, in search of employment, picked quarrels to make friends...
...birthday of M. Clemenceau was not "celebrated" last week. Few Frenchmen know his birthdate, for it has been his whim to conceal it from the compilers of reference books. Instead of giving or attending a stuffy birthday dinner, M. Clemenceau observed his birthday by ordering his chauffeur to drive hi mto the village of Les Sables d'Olonne. There he bargained vociferously with the vegetable and fisherwomen for the substance of a frugal meal. Returning to Bels Ebats, he dined alone...
...constituents, are to decide whether the Prince Albert seat in the House of Commons is a chattel to be passed from hand to hand at the whim of a chosen few, or whether the electors themselves are to have a voice as to who shall represent them at Ottawa. You are to decide whether the ballot is to be loaded so that the Liberal candidate is presented on the ballot with all his rank and title while the Independent candidate is robbed of the Military Cross which he won in France...
...poet also of the other world, he gibbers Spider, Spider, of madness, "hairy-lipped, a crab from Hades." Arabia Felix and The Tower of Genghis Khan are old opiates. He is a man for hot color-read Whim Alley; and sweet peace-see Old Meadows. If there are full-stature poets in the U. S., and it is demonstrable that there are, Hervey Allen, young Charleston, S. C, schoolteacher, is well to the fore in their company...