Word: bores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Testament-like baldness, power and monotony, continue ashamed until an octoroon of the fourth generation "passes over"-that is, becomes white enough to be ashamed of his shame. Ironically, pathetically, he goes, as his great-great-grandfather went before him, "to help people." Some call this book an unnecessary bore. Others call it almost indubitably a classic...
...produced a great slate, 18 inches high and over two feet long. The children examined it; it was quite unwritten on. Carefully the medium wrapped it in a cloth. Teddy and Cornelius were made to hold it. Again the medium implored the spirits. The slate was unwrapped. It bore two portraits? one of the President, the other of Uncle Quentin, killed in France. Under the President's picture was an inscription saying that if he should ever come back, it would be through the medium of Houdini. Below was signed in unmistakable hand: "Your devoted Theodore" and "In haste, your...
...Book. In 1795, the daughter of a man who ran a livery stable at the sign of the Swan and Hoop, Finsbury Pavement, Moorfields, married one Thomas Keats, her father's trusted head hostler and, a year later, bore him a son, John. This boy went to school till he was 17, was then bound apprentice to a surgeon, read Wordsworth, Byron, Spenser, looked into Chapman's Homer, wrote some stumbling poetry, made friends with Editor Leigh Hunt, Painter Haydon, Etcher Joseph Severn, Publish- er's Reader Woodhouse. Although lie was only five feet high, the beauty of his countenance...
...well known how the sailors, after a long struggle, regretfully abandoned Jonah to the rugged mercies of his God; and how Leviathan, by prearrangement, rose from the sea-bottom and bore the gurgitated prophet in his belly to Nineveh. There Jonah prophesied : "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown." The city repented like a child of its sins; even the King went and sat down in some ashes. When the forty days were spent, it was found that God had spared Nineveh...
...pomp and circumstance proper to the coronation of the Peepul's annointed, are waved aside. The only vestige of the grandeur that was Rome which has escaped the austerity of the censor is the badge, symbol of authority, and lineal descendant of the fasces which the lector bore in front of the Roman consul on occasions of state. In token of the triumph of Jacksonian democracy, every performer in the procession will wear one of these badges upon the left suspender of his overalls, and every badge, to escape the suspicion of favoritism, will read: "Admit one Good only...