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...Picturing himself as a sentry who "sees approaching a force which frankly and openly seeks to destroy," Jimmy thundered: "Upon this interpretation of my duties as a diplomat I am content to risk my official head. If I be wrong then let the executioner be summoned and wield his ax. Head chopping is just an old family custom with the Cromwells anyhow...
...great six-volume biography (TIME, Dec. 4). Neither U. S. readers nor, unfortunately, U. S. public men have ever paid enough attention to the prose of Lincoln's speeches in the '50s, disciplined, direct and clear, with "a logical power as sharp and crushing as a battle ax." Because it contains probably less of anything but honest thought than any other subsequent political writing, Lincoln's prose often has the unsought and surprising force of fine literature...
...shore war tickled ta find out this war leep yar. i yam awful bashful an i war shore hatin ter ax a boy to be a gittin hitched with me this yar, an being as how im ateen which means Ise gittin purty old which means Id best git me a man this year cause itle be fore more yars for i git a chance agin...
...suffered also under a strong, sadistic elder brother, Harvey. Among other misfortunes he: fell into a well, was buried under a gravel slide, got one foot frozen, had the end of his thumb sliced by Harvey (deliberate torture), got his jaw knocked half in two by an ax (Harvey again, an accident, no apology). Occasionally a cowboy stopped for a few days - most of them left lice -or a river baptism relieved the monotony: "As the women waded into the river, gasping with every breath, their long wrappers floated about their legs. Brother Jim, mindful of their virtue, would stoop...
...explained to the satisfaction of the Brooklyn district attorney's office were these facts: Engelberg appeared to have been asleep when he was attacked, and by the horrible look of his face, the "something on the dresser" which Haas-Kehler said he grasped must have been an ax...