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...incurable optimist, Pushkin was glad it was not Siberia, did not realize he was banished till several years had gone by without his recall. He passed his days as usual, kept in duelling trim by shooting patterns on his bedroom wall with wax bullets, by twirling a heavy iron cane wherever he went, to strengthen his trigger hand. And he wrote verse: pornographic, blasphemous, lyric, political, and his masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse form. Once, as a punishment for some escapade, Pushkin was sent off to inspect a locust-ravaged district, write a report on conditions there...
...assume some responsibility for my use of the figure for it really grew out of the half-nude banker figure published on Sept. 12, 1935 and in the following issue flatteringly mentioned by TIME. If ridiculous half-dressed, I assumed that wholly nude excepting for a hat and cane he would be a very good symbol for the "Old Deal," those who, in both parties, were generally regarded as stand pat and conservative and for whom the donkey and elephant were useless as symbols. Nude indeed he was at first but several letters apprized me of the fact that...
...thousands who sat in Mark Hopkins' classes only a scant 250 lived to journey to Williamstown for his Centenary. Those oldsters remembered him as a great, gaunt, Lincolnesque figure striding under the Williamstown elms in frock coat and top hat, carrying a gold-headed cane. Or they recalled his classes in moral philosophy, when he wrote their names on slips of paper, stuffed them in a pill box and drew them out, one by one, for the order of recitation. Few could remember much more. Reflected Williams' President Tyler Dennett last week: "In stitutions have many...
Masonite was jockeyed into a fine position for revival in building by winning a patent infringement suit in 1933 against Bror Dahlberg's Celotex Corp., No. 1 U. S. wallboard makers. Mr. Dahlberg makes his board of sugar cane fibre. He found, as Inventor Mason did, that hard board could be made from materials other than wood. By giving his sugar cane a little more heat and pressure, he too got a dense, rigid board. But Masonite sued and won, which meant that if anyone wanted hard board they had to buy Presdwood...
...Eton schooldays last week that awful moment at which his Tutor assigned him to "fag" for a senior Etonian. This "fag-master" will expect his tea to be made and his room tidied by Viscount Lascelles who will find his posterior more or less vigorously "swished" with a cane or fives-bat if the toast is burned or the fag-master's cricket boots are improperly cleaned. The King's nephew will most certainly be thus belabored like any other Eton schoolboy, but Viscount Lascelles is most unlikely to be flogged with the Eton birch by athletic, rock...