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...trunk. In 1928, feeling more secure, he married Portland, a chorine in George White's Scandals. In the next three years he had his biggest Broadway hits, The Little Show and Three's a Crowd. But in 1932, he found himself without a booking. Why not fool around with that new thing, radio, for a couple of months...
...boundaries of so-called health and decay, strength and weakness, as well as all alleged fixity or changelessness of things-how he had brooded on all that, at that time. And how all thought of fixity in anything had disappeared as a ridiculous illusion intended, maybe, by something to fool man into the belief that his world here, his physical and mental state, was real and enduring, a greater thing than anything else in the universe, when so plainly it was not. But not himself. A mere shadow-an illusion -nothing. ... It had all come to him, the evanescence...
...interest in their church -probably out of sheer homesickness. And church-sponsored social gatherings are livelier affairs than the stuffy whist drives at home. But the church's appeal is not all nostalgia. "Of course," says Selwyn cheerfully, "a great many people think a parson's a fool, and come to us for a loan with some cock & bull story about being robbed on the Metro...
...help, Pier had to mortgage the farm again. Pier was hardworking and resourceful, but he was also bullheaded. In the early '303, he refused to join his neighbors in the New Deal's corn and hog program. In 1936, the great dust storms ruined him. ("Fool. Such a fool. Man assumes that the soil is eternal. It is not. . . ."). Neglected and sick for years, Nertha died...
...slugs marred the first stage of "Operation Curbside," as Cambridge officials boasted, "We have a fool-proof machine." Even vandals were unable to damage the meters, although two tried hard. The offenders were caught and given fifteen days in the House of Correction...