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...Auld Lang Swyne, how full of cant...
...guiding motives of his life. His rebellion against the stifling upbringing in his home, a gloomy country parsonage, led him to rebel against other sacred authorities, so that a later generation regarded him as "the first great exploder of Victorian hypocrisy, the pioneer rebel and inveigher against cant." Wrong, says Muggeridge. Far from being the great Anti, Butler was the Ultimate Victorian; his wildest crusades simply took him further into a Never-never Land. And Butler, says Muggeridge, was a thin-skinned snob, a spiteful prig...
With the approach of the presidential election, Harvard takes on a more fevered appearance. Buttons of various sizes and hues appear. Meetings of political groups, assemblies, debates, all fill the air with their cries and cheers. Everywhere can be heard political discussion, opinion, creed, code or cant. Statistics; proving either of two sides, are called into play by the clever. Rumor and scandal, easy to remember and difficult to refute, are used by the unscrupulous. The whole college is caught up in the maelstrom of political interest and factional discussion. Harvard has awakened to the fact that there...
...lifer has constantly before him the vision of a possible parole or commutation. His conduct is constantly under more careful scrutiny than the termer because it has so much more bearing upon his eventual release than is true to the termer. The termer can lose "copper" (prison cant for earnable credits in the form of reduced actual time spent in prison). The lifer, by the very nature of his sentence, cannot lose anything of that kind because he is already doing "life." Misconduct can extend a lifer's prison stay by years, while it seldom costs a termer more...
...bearing effigies of homely Queen Anne and handsome Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. In the procession donkeys bore such placards as: "Queen Anne's Dead!" "The Parsons' Feet Have Been Under Our Table Too Long," "The Tithe Is the Death Watch Beetle Of Agriculture," "Archbishop of Cant. Church on Sunday but Hands Off the Farmer!" Spectators pelted the effigies with stones, clods, dung, mouldy mangel-wurzels. Then they burned them...