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...might apply to Jesse for a loan, if and when his bank makes 'em; you might call on the New Deal if you have a gold contract to abrogate; or an airmail contract that needed cancelling; or if you are a professor; or you could probably get first-hand information for a divorce; but when the New Deal thinks of you as a "speculator"?in the words of Joe Penner, "you nasty citizen...
...acute. But a conflict of principle appears in the present set-up of the School. The trips to the Watertown Arsenal are justified on the grounds that in the government's plant the students become acquainted with the very latest developments in the metallurgy and gain essential practical knowledge first-hand. Students on the other hand claim that the work in the Arsenal is mostly manual labor and that the Engineering School is degenerating into a trade school...
...guess concerning the outcome is as good as another's. One thing is certain. There is no appeal from a sentence for contempt of court, and if the penalty is inflicted, the Record's now famous ghost writer will be given a chance to get his information first-hand...
...been successful. Though not comparable to Boswell's book in size (249 pp. to 1,104 pp.) Samuel Johnson can well afford comparison in other ways. Boswell is often thought of as the man who knew Dr. Johnson best. But that is not so. Boswell was a first-hand reporter of only one period of Garrick's actresses excited his amorous propensities. Johnson's career-when he had already become the Great Charn of English letters. Though Boswell's Johnson is a very human figure he is a full-fledged prodigy. Kingsmill successfully attempts to humanize...
...every first-hand reader of Ulysses there have been scores of second-hand gossipers. Censorship rather than sound criticism has spread its reputation throughout the Western world. What the man in the street has heard of Ulysses has made him prick up his ears. Usually his first question...