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More effective than the praise which professional Prohibitors heap upon the job that gives them their daily bread, was a temperate, well-seasoned statement filed by Prof. Irving Fisher, Yale economist. Professor Fisher adroitly admitted most of the facts against which Wets have complained but insisted that even these facts do not outbalance the larger benefits of Prohibition. He charted the rise and fall of Prohibition as follows...
...attention to olfactory sensations would finally render a man's nose as keen as a dog's; that similar results could be obtained with other mental, physical, emotional potentialities. Most famed Institutee: the late Katherine Mansfield, who died of advanced consumption (1924) at the Institute. Other onetime Institutees: Jane Heap, Margaret Anderson (onetime editors of the late Little Review...
...glass." She went to jail, the first of seven such trips. Four jail terms she went on hunger strikes. She kept count of the number of times jailers forcibly rammed food down her throat. The count was 232. Once she gnawed a hole in her prison mattress, made a heap of the stuffings, twisted pages of her cell Bible into tapers, smashed her cell window and reached to the gas light outside for the flame which set her cell on fire...
...miracle. He brought with him an instrument which consisted of an ebonite stick to which were fastened two slips of gold leaf. It was an electroscope. This electroscope he rubbed with a piece of cat's fur and slowly waved over the hospital's cinder heap. By and by the gold leaf dropped. Professor Allen immediately sifted the indicated cinders and with a forceps picked up the lost tube of radium. It had been thrown into the furnace with dirty bandages, as he had suspected...
...Ellery Sedgwick (Atlantic Monthly)'. "In Ulysses Joyce made an original contribution to tragic literature, highly stimulating to conscious writers of subconscious fiction." Controversy still rages about whether or not Ulysses is really obscene. Joyce himself does not like dirty stories. A U. S. admirer chucklingly told Editor Jane Heap (of the late great Little Review) he was sending Joyce a choice collection; was advised not to send them, as Joyce would be greatly offended...