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...system suffered a kind of accumulated shock, a reverberation of all the disappointments, dreams, hopes, despairs and resignations which had piled up during the year. Now loathing possessed him, loathing for the place, for the climate, for his work which he saw as a mere drop in this bottomless bucket of poverty, superstition and disease. . . . He watched rain drench the road and knew that everywhere humble people were praising the Lord as they paddled through the downpour. . . . But he was incapable of sharing in the jubilation of. these god-infested folk-their joys and their griefs were on too vast...
...continued pensively: "Johnny's in New York." "Now, Johnny," interrupted Mrs. Williams, "you know what happened to Johnny. Why, he died. You know that." "Oh, that's right," agreed John L. vaguely. He spat wide of the bucket again, glanced at the ceiling, where a square foot of plaster was missing. "I don't remember much about Paper Doll, but I did most of the writing on Dardanella. I gave it to him and said take it and go along with...
...most popular modern English versions of the New Testament was issued 20 years ago by Professor Edgar Johnson Goodspeed of the University of Chicago.* Although some 500,000 copies have been sold, this is a drop-in-the-bucket figure compared to the sales of the 300-year-old King James version...
...Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?' (But where are the snows of yesteryear?) "Here is your chance. This is where you go to town. Seize the nitwit by the scruff of the neck, march him out to the snow gauge and shout: " 'Right in that bucket, you fool!' "I'll bet you'll feel pretty good after that." O'Nolan knows well that the funda mental internal policy of his Government is the revival of Irish language and Irish culture. He speaks and writes Irish accurately and fluently, but he is willing...
This Is the Army (Warner) on Techni-colored celluloid should make the flesh version's $1,951,045.11 (earned for Army Emergency Relief) look like eleven cents in a deserving bucket. For it offers U.S. cinemaudiences the rare pleasure of feeling generous toward a generous...