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...said, "At least there is one good thing about the Reading Period, the Vagabond can't write about lectures he's going to." Conversation began to pick up, here evidently was a subject upon which they could all speak with feeling. "I wouldn't mind it if the old fool would just put down the day's lectures and have done, but he seems to feel it incumbent upon him to unburden the secrets of his soul and his subconscious mind." "Yes," the first member was taking up the thread of the yarn, "and by the time he's written...
...Flying Fool." A loop, another loop, a snap roll, a series of slow rolls, an Immelman. . . . Crowds at the Miami All-American Air Races had seen such stunts done before, but never by a plane like this one?a tiny Curtiss Teal amphibian. Dale ("Red") Jackson, co-holder with Forest O'Brine of the world's refueling duration record, was again qualifying for a nickname he earned two years ago? "Flying Fool.". . . Again he pulled the little ship over in a loop, began to straighten out after the dive?when a wing tore off, then another . . . Pilot Jackson died...
Whatever the immediate advantages of entering upon a career in a depression, the mental influence of times of stress is beneficial. The young man entering a fool's paradise from his university may conceive of life as a series of halycon days interspersed with a few unexplainable storms, but he who graduates in the collapse of this paradise will have greater respect for the sterner virtues, which, come to the front in stormy days...
...economic boycott, and they are also masters at passive resistance. . . . One of the difficulties in Manchuria is that many Chinese have the belief-the obsession I might call it-that we covet Manchuria. . . . We do not. . . . Nor does Japan want any part of China proper. No one but a fool would have any such thought! It is the war lords there who have caused all this trouble. The greedy war lords are one of China's greatest drawbacks...
...Manhattan lionized him; he enjoyed it. But he acted like a flash in the pan: fell down on writing contracts, got into debt, antagonized lion-hunters. When Statesman John Hay once complained to Harte that he was short of funds, Harte replied: "Your own fault. Why did you fool away your money paying your debts?" When friends got him the job of U. S. commercial agent at Crefeld, Germany he took it gratefully, though it meant leaving his wife and family behind. He never rejoined them: from Crefeld he was shifted to Glasgow as consul; when President Cleveland...