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...time Knopf told about H. L. Mencken--his birthdays, his jokes, and his work. It was Mencken who suggested that Knopf publish Mann's works in English. It was also Mencken who gave Knopf a "moustache cup" for his birthday so that he could drink without endangering his copious whiskers. Concerning his own birthday, Mencken once said "I used to spend my birthday in prayer but today I went to a brewery and the scheme worked fine...
Stalin, after copious draughts of vodka mixed with red pepper, had fallen asleep in his chair. Molotov, Malenkov and Beria, with fingers to their lips warned off intrusive domestics who might interfere with the great man's repose. While they guarded him, he had a dream...
Somehow, the Crimson managed to avert catastrophe until the last quarter of play, but then Harvard's copious mistakes finally caught up with...
Those who get to class take copious notes, mimeograph entire courses for the shutouts. Thousands of students have given up even trying to attend lectures. They merely register in the fall, study canned notes in nearby cafes, tackle final exams in May-turning Sorbonne students into what the alarmed French press calls "test monsters...
...early bird gets the history and literature of Europe in copious quantities. Comp. List. 157 savors "German Drama from Kleist to the Expressionists in Its European Context" for those who read German, while the philosophers Hegel, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard take a going over from Dr.--(Phil. 131), who seems to be teaching a lot of courses this year. Down south, Italy, Renaissance and modern, gets treatment in History 152b, in the latter case by H. S. Hughes...