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...their indoor social gatherings it is customary for one and all to sit stripped to the buff; that if land is ever discovered beyond Barrow, and utilized for an aero base, Manhattan may be within two days and a half of Tokyo. Besides such statistics, human interest, personalities, abound. The one maddening thing is, that for a book written by a camera man, this one is most stingily illustrated...
...English being notoriously an incomprehensible race, Americans must be content with understanding that they cannot understand them. This book is as English as Huntley and Palmer's. Its jokes are English in their unobstrusive dreariness. Its pages abound with Dickensy eccentrics and Arch bald Marshallish country life, and, in addition, there is an unmistakable flavor of Kipling and Ian Hay and Conan Doyle...
Explanations abound, correcting many a roseate popular illusion, alleviating the author's feelings and his passion for unvarnished verity. They are mostly revelations of people, beheld in their reactions to McDougall or his cartoons of them. J. P. Morgan Sr. was small-minded about his big nose; Rudyard Kipling, rude; Tom Nast, vain and petty; Mark Twain, grumpily grudging; Thomas Wanamaker, "a nasty little commercial person"; Woodrow Wilson, "a sort of swift floor-walker's smirk"; Joseph Pulitzer, a social climber, ingenious blasphemer ? for instance, the epithet, "too inde-god-dam-pendent...
...rolls fair), infield flies, balls batted out of sight. There is a catachism of 51 articles: "Don't be anxious, too quick, tactless, argumentative, vindictive, officious. . . . Remember the spectators. . . . Listen to reason. . . . Smile. ..." The crouching and erect postures are compared. The double-and single umpire systems are explained. Anecdotes abound. Upon the students completing the course with distinction, Professor Evans confers the degree of M. A.? Master Arbiter...
...faith of Jesus Christ we lay this foundation stone, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, that here true faith and brotherly love may flourish and abound, and that this place may be a house of prayer for all people, forever to the glory and praise of Christ our Lord...