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...British. Against George VI and on behalf of France he quotes passionately the charges in the U.S. Declaration of Independence hurled against George III: "He has plundered our Seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our Towns, and destroyed the Lives of our People. . . . He has excited domestic Insurrections amongst...
Next post she wangled him-"on Richard's solemn oath that he would act with 'unusual' prudence"-was the consulship at Damascus . . . "the dream of my childhood ... I am to live amongst the Bedawin Arab chiefs; I shall smell the desert air; I shall have tents, horses, weapons, and be free. . . ." They arrived with a museum load of African, South American and Indian bric-a-brac and five dogs-to which they soon added twelve horses, three goats, a camel, a snow-white donkey, a pet lamb and a baby panther (which the horrified peasants poisoned...
...British Righteousness, Alfred Noyes' new poem lacks both rhyme and reason. The stirring ballad style and pointed irony of his more famous poetry has yielded to Carlyic-like turgidity and verbosity. The former Princeton professor approaches a quotable quote only once in half a hundred pages when he condemns amongst the wave of irrationalists who prepared the intellectuals for Hitler...
...could pack all the roasting meat of any one of them into the hollow of one of those horns. A Longhorn bull was known to gore the life out of a grizzly; another scattered a U. S. regiment that had stood against Santa Anna. James Bowie used to ride amongst them, knifing them down...
...Bulletin takes this opportunity of informing alumni that Charlton David Pierce, who graduated from the Academy in 1934, is cashing checques on banks where he has no accounts and is otherwise seeking to raise money under false pretenses amongst Exeter alumni. To do this he is also misrepresenting the interest and responsibilities of the Academy and Dr. Perry in his concerns. It would appear that Pierce, unfortunately, is not to be trusted in financial matters...