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...into a briefcase or package were not likely to be checked. Moreover, as a former warrant officer, Walker could mix with Navy officers in their clubs as well as fraternize with enlisted men in their hangouts. The rank nicely bridges the Navy's class lines between noncoms and "gentlemen." Declared another private detective in Norfolk: "He couldn't have been better positioned...
...most in the West, notably including political leaders, spying is deemed necessary largely because everyone does it, but it is relegated to the shadowy sidelines of the more legitimate enterprises of diplomacy and soldiering. Opening each other's mail is a business gentlemen pursue only with a certain self-conscious distaste...
...27th) when the Postal Service issued a new 22 cents stamp in his honor. It has kept rolling along with concerts, radio and TV tributes, and retrospectives of Kern films from Show Boat to Swing Time. This week marks the premiere of an off- & Broadway revue, Ladies and Gentlemen . . . Jerome Kern, which spans the composer's career from the turn of the century to his death in 1945. In Britain, where the composer met his first stage success (and his only wife), three more revues are wending their way toward the West End. In the past two years, half...
...mastery of sublime inanity. What other writer would somberly portray a heroine "feeling her purpose trickle away between her legs like a slow haemorrhage"? Where else could one find a statement both so unconsciously offensive and grammatically inept as "A devout Jew but nonetheless the most Christian of gentlemen, his sins were purely sins of omission and due to thoughtlessness and lack of perception"? No wonder this novel promises to become a blockbuster; readers will be savoring its thousands of gaffes well into the third millennium...
...animate the Students in the pursuit of literary merit and fame, and to excite in their breasts a noble spirit of emulation there shall be annually a public examination, in the preference of a joint committee of the Corporation and Overseers and such other gentlemen as may be inclined to attend it," a 1790 law reads...