Word: bone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emperor Licinius, Blasius retired to a cave where he made friends with lions, leopards, bears and wolves. One day the emperor's huntsmen found him, dragged him away from his pets. On his way to trial Blasius cured a small boy who was choking on a fish bone. He also made a wolf return a pig it had stolen from an old woman. When Blasius was flung into a dungeon to starve, the woman gratefully brought him her pig. In 316 A. D. they beheaded Blasius after carding the flesh from his bones with an iron comb. Venerated increasingly...
...drove off with her in the direction of the Osage Hills-presumably to hide with the Texas fugitives. One other Lansing fugitive, Charles Clifton McArthur, burglar and murderer, was captured as he entered Kansas City on a trolley car, having walked 35 miles from the prison with an ankle bone fractured in the jump from the wall. Bob Brady was shot and killed by a posse near Paola, Kans...
...dancing days are gone": Nor dread nor hope attend A dying animal; A man awaits his end Dreading and hoping all; Many times he died, Many times rose again. A great man in his pride Confronting murderous men Casts derision upon Supersession of breath; He knows death to the bone- Man has created death...
Obviously this sort of compendium is unsatisfactory from the reviewer's point of view, since it yields up no ponderous cosmology, no bone of contention with which he may take issue. Accepted for what it is, however, the book makes excellent fire-side reading. Most of the narratives are well chosen, and in many cases they have the ring of truth. In selecting them, Yeats-Brown has wisely avoided the glossy newness of the recent past, and, by temperate use of the editorial pencil, has preserved that quaintness of style which lends glamour to the adventurers of another...
...might be able to face the persistent problems of student aid with the continuity and courage that they demand. The emergency student employment, for example, has tended to become more literal minded than is necessary. Some of the jobs which have burgeoned under its hand, such as the museum bone dusting, have only a nominal utility; others, such as the library label sticking, occupy so much time as to militate against the fact that Harvard is, after all, a college, and that its student body had best conserve their energies to the acquisition of knowledge. The emergency employment appropriation could...