Word: crutches
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...Writing is a good stick to have by you, but a very poor crutch," he said. "It's all right to do some of it on the side, but when it becomes the only means of supporting oneself, it is not a very satisfying profession...
...drunken company "like a 17th Century Puritan leaving a tavern full of Cavaliers." Among other veterans' tales of literary warfare, Chesterton records the story of the great Critic Henley, who got so excited in a controversy over Tolstoy and Ibsen that he hit a brother-critic with his crutch. Corpulent, good-natured Chesterton was too absent-minded to be a good battler. On one of his lecture tours he sent his wife a telegram: "Am in Market Harborough. Where ought I to be?" Another time Shaw persuaded him to take part in a cinema, saying it was being produced...
...total weight, Surgeon Crile declared that its "sympathetic complex" made the lion the "most volatile of beasts." Her frizzy hair dyed corn-yellow, her blue eyes fading and weak, Eva Tanguay 58, famed oldtime vaudeville singer (I Don't Care!) was found hobbling around on a crutch in her bleak Hollywood cottage. "Arthritis," she explained to a newshawk. "First I became blind. . . . Now my eyes are better, and my knee is worse The doctor says I will be able to walk again. . . . Doctors always tell you that." Pursing a cramped smile, she mumbled "Please tell them that Eva Tanguay...
...thing, but they might say 'Little by little the cat eateth up the bacon thickle.' or 'Feather by feather the goose is plucked'. . . ." Proverbs as a literary fashion died out with the 17th Century, but still remain the spoon-fed wisdom of the unsophisticated, the crutch for halting orators, the handy rubber stamp of hack-writers cramped for time...
Granted, now that they were around one small table, that the League was a feeble crutch at best, nevertheless, if Italy refused to arbitrate her border differences with Abyssinia, much more than this particular crisis was at stake. If Abyssinia's appeal should be dragged into the open League forum and if Italy still refused to arbitrate, the same thing would happen that had happened in the case of Japan and Germany. It would turn into a squabble of Italy against the entire League and probably force Italy to withdraw from the League. With the Danubian conference...