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...Insolent." The House roared with cheers for the Prime Minister. The British press soon burst out with a chorus of approval, pointing out that if the door to negotiations had been left slightly ajar, the opening was much too small for Führer Hitler, with his pride and his conquests, to slip in. The ordinary Briton applauded and at the same time scanned the skies for the German bombers that the Nazis had threatened to send over when the war began in earnest...
...Haight, who believes that De Forest's characters are unsurpassed in U. S. fiction: "It was an unfortunate moment to launch a realistic story of the war. At that time the bereaved were looking for comfort in such works as Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Gates Ajar; and those who still wished to read about battles wanted them tidied up for the drawing room." But another factor is at work in re-establishing the value of such books as De Forest's. More important than the change in taste is the current re-examination...
...Paul and William shinnied up a drainpipe to a window ledge. Windows were locked on the first story. Up they climbed to the second, crawled around the ledge until they found a window open. Past a guard (reading a newspaper), through attack-proof steel doors (ajar), into a room full of copper sheets (pennies in the raw), they tiptoed. One of them knocked a wrench clattering from a chair, but no guards came running. They took some copper clippings ($1.50 worth), tiptoed back to their window, threw the copper to the ground, departed as they had come...
...witnesses in the new building, which is supervised by Vernon Struck, '38 last year's football star, declared that John White '42 left his room at midnight on Saturday, leaving his door ajar, and that the latter promptly blew shut, locking...
Argus was a mythological monster who never missed a trick, for some of his 100 eyes were always ajar. Considering that such a creature might well have been the pure prototype of the modern international journalist, Vladimir Poliakoff took "Argus" as a pen name in 1924, when he wrote an article for the British Fortnightly Review. By a mistake the printer made it "Augur." The accidental pseudonym served just as well for Journalist Poliakoff's political forecasts, and Augur it has remained. In 14 years that by-line has come to mean as much as 22K inside a ring...