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...only prisoner who defied the G.P.U. One skinny little Jewish tailor, who openly declared himself an anarchist but refused to admit to counter-revolutionary charges, "survived an almost uninterrupted 'conveyer' lasting for 31 days and . . . nights." Another prisoner, a Kharkov doctor, won through by dint of sheer comic genius and a wonderful memory for names. He not only confessed instantly, but wrote down the names of all his "accomplices"-i.e., "all the several hundred doctors in Kharkov." When the examiner refused to accept such a sweeping statement, the doctor addressed a strong letter to the authorities complaining that...
...excess is cigars. One of his favorite occupations is sit ting for long hours in his den strumming Gilbert & Sullivan (at which he is an expert) on his guitar. He is also an expert on the novels of Henry James. Having had hardly any for mal education, Groucho, by dint of greedy reading, has made himself a well-read man. His friends are endlessly amazed at his mastery of the contents of magazines which they regard as highbrow (Atlantic, Harper's, Saturday Review of Literature...
...Bernard Shaw. In An Unsocial Socialist (1883), Shaw let one of his characters speak for him on the subject: "Nine-tenths of painting as we understand it at present [will be] extinguished by the competition of these photographs, and the remaining tenth [will hold] its own against them by dint of extraordinary excellence...
...cheer dint of his own personality and wit, Father Feeney has won support and attention with sentiments that have been laughed at when voiced by others. He is training his students, he claims, to carry his doctrine "to every common and public square in greater Boston...
...sensational entrance at Wichita Falls High School put him in contact with the local marijuana ring within three days. By dint of a lot of night driving, he managed to buy $18,500 worth of marijuana (with marked bills) from dealers all over north central Texas...