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...dressed up and looked fine. ... I had met lots of Christians, socalled, and rather despised them . . . but I had to admit they had done something for this man. And what impressed me most, this man was waiting to tell some boy that was a drug addict that Jesus Christ would cure...
PETER PANTHEISM-Robert Haven Schauffler-Macmillan ($2). Mr. Schauffler is an unregenerate word-and-phrase addict, or more politely, a poetic philologist. Give him a simple declarative idea and he will repeat it to you in a dozen new guises, tricked out in quotations, skipping in humor, prone in absurdity or radiant with glamour. It takes erudition, it takes nimbleness; but of both Mr. Schauffler has sufficient to jump over the conversational candlestick with our spryest informal essayists. Among the ideas herein prestidigitated are "Ignorance Is Bliss," "Cupid in Knickerbockers" (on calf love), "Timesquarese" (on alphabetical survival of the fittest...
...Harvard graduate is holding a position as caretaker of a small playground. He is most likely one of the following. (1) A drunkard or drug addict: (2) unusually fond of children: (3) unable to adjust to a position of responsibility: (4) a moron...
...himself be seized with morbid visions and filled with horror and dismay. About half to one hour is necessary for the opium to take effect and cause slumber from which the consumer awakes exhausted, pensive and melancholy. The drug is dangerously habit-forming and becomes so necessary to the addict that he cannot live without a regular supply...
...pretty and accomplished young lady (Frieda Inescort), who is continually referred to as "that superlative creature," is married to a drink and dope addict. Her strong, silent friend (Tearle) takes the addict down to the seashore and kills him with a heroin and whisky cocktail. Returning, he vilifies the lady's father who has made the match and watched it smoulder because of his own ambitions toward the peerage. The girl falls, as planned, into the arms of a more agreeable matrimonial prospect...