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...very real pleasures, of vanity." He regards himself in the same breath as normal: "I am being my own rabbit because I find no other specimen so convenient for dissection. Our own lives are all the practical material we have for the scientific study of living; the rest is hearsay." And supernormal: "The originative intellectual worker is not a normal human being and does not lead nor desire to lead a normal human life. He wants to lead a supernormal life...
...Unfortunately, there was no money left for a monument. Last year Jesuits bought the cemetery and the remains of Norton I were removed to a vault. Last week San Franciscans, most of whom knew of the mad old man, his plumed silk hat and gold-ferruled cane only by hearsay, turned out by the hundreds to rebury him at Woodlawn Memorial Park in San Mateo County...
...preparatory schools of the country to inform students there of Princeton life and customs. Since preparatory school students are most likely to derive their ideas of a university from the sporting page of the national dailies, the entrance requirements, their family traditions, where their friends are going, or mere hearsay, such an organization should do much toward presenting the merits and advantages of the University in a saner and more practical light...
...bitter struggle has raged between Bolivia and Paraguay off & on for 50 years. Nothing will swerve the average South American from his belief, founded on pure but insistent hearsay, that "The whole thing is a struggle between the United States which has always backed Bolivia and Great Britain which has always helped Paraguay...
...years the vice president in charge of the foreign department of one of the largest Wall Street banks, then president of a smaller bank, then a Wall Street in vestment counsel, and who now represents himself to be the intimate adviser of Senator Thomas? This is not hearsay. This man has stated not once but several times that not only is he Senator Thomas's ad viser, but that he helps the good Senator to write many of his letters and speeches. Perhaps, he has no right to make any such statement. ... If, on the other hand...