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Howard's mother died when Howard was 17, and after that Hughes Sr., always indulgent, became even more so. He sent Howard abroad accompanied by Dudley Sharp and packing an allowance of $5,000 or more a month. In Brussels, Hughes took a fling at roulette. Playing only red or black, he ran a stake of $10 up to $10,000, lost it all on one spin of the wheel, left the table without a word...
Whodunit? Author Gertrude Stein never comes right out and says, and a second reading of her posthumous Blood on the Dining-Room Floor doesn't help much. This curious fling at mystery-story writing by the late expatriate mumbo-jumboist never even admits that a murder is a murder is a murder. And there is no detective in the story to clear things...
During the Nineteenth Century, the establishment of July 4th as a national holiday and of Class Day as the time for a last fling sobered up Commencement Day considerably. Music, dancing, and the booths on the Common disappeared, and at the same time the actual exercises became less stiff. The one Latin, two Greek, and two Hebrew disputations gradually gave way to orations in English, the first of which was given in 1763 by Jedediah Huntington, a future Revolutionary War general...
...wide but her stitches are painstakingly small. Heroine Alis settles down to yearly pregnancies, frequent miscarriages, and incessant worries about the financial decline of the manor, the fruits of which her self-indulgent husband squanders on pomp, tournaments and the Crusades. Before old age, each has one fierce extramarital fling -and two bastards are added to the brood of infants at gloomy Linnieres...
...practicing a fairly individualistic, not to say selfish, economic policy. We have all tried to save ourselves in very different ways. Some have pursued a policy of austerity [Britain], others a policy of abundance [Belgium], or dirigisme [The Netherlands]. Others, in their search for recovery, do not hesitate to fling themselves into purely monetary manipulations [France...