Word: detachedness
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In Paulsboro, N. J., John Williams, town dogcatcher, resigned for the third time. He had been making as much as $36 per day: $2 for each unlicensed dog he put to death. As proof of each dog caught, John Williams furnished one detached dog-ear. Reason he resigned: the Mayor...
Reverberations from the strife of recent party campaigns and elections have been strong enough to penetrate the remote seclusion of the Vagabond's quarters. In keeping with his lecture listening, academic frame of mind, he shuns an active participation in the world of affairs and prefers to contemplate things political...
To Elizabeth Duchess of York, whose happiest years were spent there, Glamis Castle is a very good place to have a baby. To a superstitious Briton?and there are millions of them?Glamis Castle is a very bad place. Glamis (pronounced Glahms) was old before Macbeth did murder sleep and...
President Ernest Hatch Wilkins, of Oberlin College: "The technique of the army and navy will hardly serve. Pictorial posters placed about the campus, with instructors detached for recruiting duty, pacing up and down in academic costumes would attract more missiles than missionaries. Teaching must be attractive . . . interesting . . . afford chance for...
The Attack. With no shots fired and distances immense, the engagement of the "backbone" by cruisers and destroyer was unimpressive, inconclusive. Then out of nowhere in the heavens over the battle fleet, aiming at a point 300 yards abeam the Salt Lake City (to avoid possibility of a crash), one...