Word: gibbon
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...safely be reduced to two, and ultimately to one?public curiosity never centres for an undue length of time upon any one subject. Some slight difficulties he has with his keeper, Collins, who is in the beginning not quite cordial. For one thing, his coming had ousted the Gibbon and there is no hiding the fact that Collins would prefer to have the Gibbon back in Mr. Cromartie's place. It had given him less work, and besides, it had never been, at any time in its life, his social superior...
...Alaska a United States Deputy Marshal took an Indian accused of murder by sled across country from Fort Gibbon to Fairbanks. En route the marshal was stricken with appendicitis. The Indian placed his captor on the sled and mushed with him the remainding 100 miles to a hospital...
...condemn the French, is there any rhyme or reason in sanctioning Shakespeare, Milton, Gibbon, even the Bible, in whose pages may be found "foul and indecent" passages? They too have been censored in the past. In fact, to put the shoe on the other foot, the Parisian authorities once, banned Fielding's "Tom Jones", to the righteous glee of Richardson, who had never forgiven Fielding for his burlesque on "Pamela". But today we accept classics in English as they are, dirty and not washed behind the ears, if you like, but still themselves, uncensored. To discriminate against such classics because...
Ruth says a fig for virtue! and Balaams to Queen Gertrude. Laud Joyce-Burge ate at Mendel's. Law the food they Pilon Rude. Happiness implies the perfect functioning of the soul, the Hundred Years' Decline and Fall of Burbank Gibbon's Holy Roman Empire, not an Empire, Holy nor yet Roman. Diminishing returns, the Tennyson, all Scop DeFoeman. Electra Dryden is the very Kittredge form of oathing upon the Tennis Court. The Double Standard Brann of Clothing is Washington down in the Poe, by Nausicaa. The Maid whose Tragedy emptor caveat a Single Tax on Trade. Plato McMasters Menckenese...
Harvard side--In charge, R. F. Hooper; Sect. 24, R. H. Loenholm (A), E. B. Kenyon and J. Mahaffy (B), T. F. Gibbon and J. S. Pfeil (C), W. Levine (D), E. A. Brotchie (E); Sect. 25, E. Elcock (A), E. B. Fitzgerald and E. M. Ho (B), L. N. Neff and G. F. Stratton (C), N. Golden (D), M. Bernard (E); Sect. 26, N. L. Nossaman (A), D. W. Creeds and J. B. Lynch (B), H. G. Brock and J. W. White (C), R. L. West (D), A. C. Townsend (E); Sect. 27, H. F. Browne (A), S. Leventhal...