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...daughter Edda, their sons Bruno and Vittorio. Round about stood in attitudes of somewhat disgruntled welcome, the 60 Grand Councillors of San Marino, an august senate from which the two regents are chosen twice a year. Well they might regard II Duce with suspicion, fear. Did not Caesar Borgia wrest the precious independence of the republic from it for an all-too-broad span of years? May not the republic's armed forces (1200 men, constituting the sturdy male population between 16 and 60) be called upon to sell their lives in attempting to repulse the possible aggression...
Seven centuries ago there was a generation of children who, having observed their elders' repeated failure to wrest the Holy Sepulchre from the infidel Saracens by brute force, resorted to the quaint expedient of trudging down across Europe, struggling over the Mediterranean Sea and advancing upon Jerusalem with hands empty of weapons and hearts full of faith. It is not recorded that the Saracen militia were deeply affected by this display, nor that they yielded their stronghold until, some time afterwards, Frederick II ousted them by adroit diplomacy. Nevertheless, the tradition that young people make good auxiliary forces...
...guest stood trembling in the corridor outside the locked door, listening to the thud and rowdydow of fists, waiting for the best man to unlock the door and step out. Would the boy be too much for the curmudgeon? Or would the canniness of the old man prevail to wrest the championship of the O'Brien family from the youth? Suddenly, silence fell in the locked room; the guests gasped; the door opened. "Better go in and sew him up, Doc," said Philadelphia Jack. The real name of the two O'Briens is Hagen...
During the last week, Mr. Baker has been in the East. Soon he will head for Nevada, to open his campaign to wrest the Senate seat from Republican Senator Oddie, whose term is expiring...
Casual but successful experimenting had suggested writing to him as the means to wrest acclaim from the world he despised. When he feared that his only veins were sadistic horror and morbid, sexless romance, he wriggled out of admitting to limitations by translating them into, esthetic ideals. He propounded that perversity is a natural human appetite; that "there is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in its proportions...