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...quite enough intelligence for a simple, happy life. Elmer and Elsie might starve to death if their batteries ran down far from a current supply, but they did not dread death or any other misfortune. Their two-tube brains had no memories to plague them with apprehension. So they crept in innocent bliss around the Walter house, alternately resting and sipping electricity like a mechanical Adam & Eve in a pre-reptilian Garden...
...comic scenes and parts that Lenormand has written seem to have crept into the play by mistake. His thesis, which is finally stated explicitly near the end, is that humans love life, and for that reason life kills them. This is an interesting and tenable idea. But in his attempt to prove its truth, he heaps one unbearable emotion on top of another. The bloody last scene (which happens to be the thirteenth) kills off the hero and heroine. M. Lenormand has reached the worst of his worst. There is nothing more to say. One last, unbearable emotion...
...about 8:30 there was the first tinkling of glass from the apartment house: a steel ball bearing, fired from a sling shot, hit a window. Police lines gave slowly, and within another half hour, the crowd, chanting "Go! Go Go!", had crept up to within 150 yards of the building. Cook County Police Lieut. Jack Johnson, an ex-marine who was in charge of the police detail, kept muttering: "Why the hell don't the Guard come...
...varsity baseball team crept from behind yesterday afternoon in Brookline to win a soggy 6 to 4 ball game from Northeastern, before the eyes of a dozen spectators, great quantities of small children and a St. Louis Cardinals scout...
...federal court in Manhattan. He heard four firemen who had served as reception ists in his office give a different total: Weber visited Moran 111 times. Moran did not take the stand; his lawyer introduced no witnesses in his defense. The jury's inevitable verdict: guilty. A flush crept up Moran's neck, but he said nothing when the judge gave him the maximum penalty for perjury: five years and a fine...