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...Maybrick took his small, lovely bride to Liverpool, to live at Battlecrease, the Maybrick family home in suburban Aigburth, remote from the gaslit streets and noisy docks of the port. Florrie entered vivaciously into Aigburth's fashionable life. Only apparent flaw in her happiness was the antagonism her husband's brothers showed her. She bore two children. It looked like a happy marriage. But in those days all marriages were trademarked "Heaven." James Maybrick turned into a hypochondriac, morbidly dosed himself with drugs. Worse, Florrie suspected that he was unfaithful. She herself found a lover, went to meet...
...Only flaw: There was not a drop of liquor...
...they were ready. On the night set for their takeoff, the engine wouldn't start. Carburetor trouble. But next night came the music of exhaust explosions. With the Nazis so near they did not dare wait to warm up the engine. However, the take-off's only flaw was the lopping of some branches off a few trees. Over the Channel they climbed to 9,000 feet but the old crate's engine began to conk out, and they had to descend to about 1,300 feet...
...never repaired. If this is the case, it shows exceedingly poor spirit in the Maintenance Department. An old alibi in the archives speaks of removing the machinery to the church opposite, but the church was not built until 1833, three years after the earliest handless picture. Another flaw in the church excuse is that President Weber put a sundial on the building in 1810, so the clock must have run down before then. Anyway, the archive record says that the Board of Overseers was to appoint a committee to see that the churchmen kept their clock right. No one living...
...students to go into social work as a vocation, but to give them a background which can be used in teaching, politics, business, or any other occupation. Surely there is nothing more practical than this. The usual, supposition is that theory is entirely impractical, and herein lies the flaw in the anti-theory argument. The guts of physics are the Newtonian principles, and yet nothing can beat physics for practically. Cook books could never have been written without the principles of theoretical chemistry. Two plus two equals four: this is most practical, and yet highly theoretical. The practicality of sociology...