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...Bayonne, N. J., John Lewko, 2, was thirsty in the night, arose, went to the sink in the dark, poured himself a drink from a kerosene can there, emptied it at a gulp, was carried screaming to the hospital in his mother's arms, died...
Sherwood Anderson, novelist: "My wife Beanie home from Italy and was surprised to find Americans had not learned how generally castor oil discipline was administered by the Fascisti. To a reporter she said: ' Every Communist found was compelled either to sip or gulp a pint of castor oil. It was amusing to see Fascisti, wearing black shirts and looking very earnest, bottles sticking out of their hip pockets, chasing wildly down the street after a shrieking Communist. Then the capture, the terrible assault, hurling the luckless Red to the sidewalk, injecting the bottle into his mouth to the muffled accompaniment...
...lettres almost suggests that the support of literature in the future will come from those parts." It is a striking picture that the professor draws; this lust for learning this avid, eager eating up of elegance, this relentless pursuit of the humanities. With exultant whoops the Western young folks gulp minor poetry and major essays, studies, sketches, belles-lettres, no more than the snow leopard, the wildcat and lynx, can escape them. As the professor says, they "go after belles-lettres," do the Western young folk, but an East bound down by tradition will wonder why the professor didn...
...such as the present, false stimulation of business is harmful--both to industry and to the nation, and certificates of indebtedness, undoubtedly a form of monetary inflation, would certainly cause a rise of prices unduly encouraging to the business world. If we do have a bonus, let the nation gulp down its medicine courageously--and pay up in cash, and to obtain cash we must have taxation...
...study is a positive joy. But for the majority, studying remains a chore; something to be turned to as a last resort under the stress of compulsion. A thesis or examination is like a disagreeable pill which one avoids taking until the last moment, and then swallows with one gulp and forgets as soon as possible...