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MAUPASSANT (Guy de) Doctor Heraclius Gloss. First...
...less pleasant caverns of Hall there is a band of the more demoniac fallen angels preparing an appropriate punishment for a group of mortal sinners. The cohorts of Satan are underlining the vacuous and unimportant passages of a public collection of fine books, and adding in the margins a gloss of irrelevant comments to each passage. The sinners will when their time comes, be required to read the books, following the thought despite the defacement. This done, each sinner will be forced to eat the books, and the lead from the pencil marks will be rendered out of them...
...Plan. "The railways as a whole are in serious difficulty," declared Governor Roosevelt in his bland, cultured voice. "Our job is neither to howl about a calamity nor to gloss over the trouble. There is no danger of the railroads going out of business. Why, then, the difficulty...
...disposition to gloss over con troversial questions will bring forth a meaningless [platform] document, a colorless candidate and a weakened party. Expediency will do nothing for democracy. ... It would be better that the convention remain in session all summer and give to the people a vigorous, strong platform and candidates capable of fighting for it than to hurry away from Chicago with a half-baked proposal...
...analyze themselves, reckoning the wild abandon, of youth or a business depression as the heritage of war. During this era, men as well as nations analyze themselves and their fellows. A host of memories is foisted upon the people. Statesmen, generals, politicians all, in the perspective of the years, gloss their blunders and magnify their names, Reputations are made by the stroke...