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...describe how he and a new partner had bought a street of slum houses in downtown New York He. Jake, during a lunch break in the signing of the partnership, removed all the toilet seats from the buildings and sold them for fifty dollars. But, asked my mother's cousin, what will the poor people who live there do without toilet seats? "Let us," said Jake, "approach your question in a practical manner. I ask you to accompany me now to the bathroom, where I will explode my bowels in the manner of the impoverished and you will...
...Oxford; a popular lecturer at Edinburgh University; tutor to the young Duke of Buccleuch; full professor of logic and then of moral philosophy at Glasgow; and author in 1759 of a philosophical treatise, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. A bachelor, Smith relied on his mother and a maiden cousin to keep house; if any love affairs ever distracted him from his studies, they have gone unrecorded. "I am a beau in nothing but my books," he once remarked, while showing off his 3,000-volume library to a friend...
...Your cousin Harold earns five thousand a year and is married to a nice, respectable girl...
Lenny Bruce in Concert, 4, 7, 10 p.m.: Quackser Fortune Has A Cousin in the Bronx, 5:20, 8:20, 11:20, through Saturday; And Now For Something Completely Different, 4, 7:25, 10:55, Bedazzied, 5:35, 9:05. Sunday through Tuesday...
...Castle. ("Living? We'll leave that to the servants," said decadent Count Axel.) This departure exacted its melancholy price. As the decade ended, Wilson was falling away from old companions, from the "outlaw" life of the Village, from youth. The mood was summed up by his favorite cousin Sandy Kimball, a schizophrenic whom Wilson visited in an institution: "Life's all right...