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...doing her portrait as if she had drowned herself, like the old man's previous young wife; Jude flirts gingerly with sex when he meets a blowsy, redheaded tavern mis tress whose face just fits the Rubens-like nude canvas which he almost never dis plays. Closest he comes to trouble is when a sheriff mistakenly nabs him as Ruby Lambkin, a highwayman whose legendary misdeeds run a counterpoint through the novel and, off & on, in gentle Jude's wistful thinking...
...dis world, eh? Godmudder used to say: 'Tek heed he dat stand lest he falleth' . . . Godmudder was a wise woman...
...antique vestement has been accumulating momentum for several years and may soon be de rigeur. This is the weskit, a gaily decorated reincarnation of the banker's vest. The most popular of these is the tattersal (alternately colored narrow, criss-cross lines). Solid colors are definitely in dis-favor...
...arguments and inquire into the spirit and purpose of the Constitution, the impropriety becomes unmistakable. On few other points in the Constitutional Convention were the framers in such complete accord as on the necessity of protecting judges from every kind of extraneous influence upon their decisions. The only important dis-agreement in this connection was whether Congress should not be forbidden even to increase the salaries of the judges during their term in office, lest the possibility of such action stand as a temptation to curry Congressional favor. In the moving phrasing of those times, the purpose was to make...
...continue in judicial office. To say this is in no way to question his integrity as an individual. No judge should be put in such a position. So far as personal attitudes are relevant, the point is not what Governor Warren and his friends will think about his dis-interestedness but what defeated litigants will think, and others who may be disappointed by the Court's decisions on the explosive issues which are about to come before it. Will they believe that the decision is that of judges "as independent as the lot of humanity will admit," if the decisive...