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...walks in Central Park until 7, then settles down to type out her stories, leaving no spaces between the words. She does her own research. Once when she and Rebecca West were watching a cook turn pancakes in a Childs restaurant window, a bystander said: "Don't disturb them. They're novelists collecting material...
...Fleay, as an experiment, gave Jill some nesting material. She promptly carried it into her burrow, soon afterward holed up for six days. When Fleay ventured to open the burrow last week, he found a fat baby, about nine weeks old, that uttered puppylike barks. Fleay is afraid to disturb the burrow further, but he thinks there may be another baby inside, because a platypus almost always lays two eggs...
...making coffee. A maniac comes in. 'Hey, jerk,' he says, 'gimme a cupa coffee.' Jerk! You're not in business to fight, right? A physical altercation can spoil the nickels. 'Derelict,' I say, 'don't disturb my equanimity.' So again he insults me-a hollow hulk like that. So I say to him: 'Your idiocy is very refreshing.' So he gets sore and wants to fight. So I say to him nice and polite: 'Hey, bum,' I said, 'stop knocking yourself out. The door...
Tutt v. Talk. Tutt believes the curse of the modern world is the fact that it is governed by talkers ("whose influence has been multiplied a millionfold by the radio"). Metaphysical notions about the nature of the universe, and human life, do not disturb him. Nor is he disheartened by the slowness of man's progress. Though his life is closing in a clouded world, Ephraim Tutt has faith that in the U.S. "the pennants still fly gallantly and the trumpets echo to the challenge of 'Liberty and Equality' and of 'Justice for the Common...
...election-year of 1935 Frank lin Roosevelt's popularity stood at a low ebb) compared to his winning plurality in 1936. The same was true, only more so, in midsummer 1939. In both 1935 and 1939 this did not disturb Mr. Roosevelt : he has always maintained, with simple practicality, that the time to be popular is on Election Day. His political henchmen, such as Harry Hopkins, even planned it that...