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...shawl, bright symbol of protest. Her bee-stung mouth was another protest. Jason Graylock, rufous, crisp but unfound, came home from medical study to take care of his father. He thought he discovered his grip in Dorinda. For her, his charm, and love itself, were life's incredible increment. Wilting suddenly before old circumstances, Jason let himself be married to Geneva Ellwood, empty heiress. Out of this irresolution came, for Geneva, insanity and suicide; for him, drink, failure, consumption. Dorinda was first stunned by the blow, then slowly forged hard. She wandered in New York, fell (arbitrarily) into good...
...Bunyan's scribe, slept only three hours each week and had 25 barrels of ink hooked up by hoses to his fountain pen; that Great Salt Lake came to be when Paul Bunyan hewed down the stone-tree forests of Utah-these and similar facts are a valuable increment to the Nation's stories of its past, and better reading than any given dozen of psychological novels...
...alone. Behind them are fifteen thousand American families. And it is fair to assume, in the large, that every one of them, less than a generation ago, stood wholly remote from the possibility of being able to send a child to college. Yet now, in a single year's increment of the enrollment-list, fifteen thousand of their sons and daughters enter into the gates and the abounding opportunities of higher education...
...long been a matter of dispute as to whether the enormity of the crime has a great deal to do with the excitement attending its unraveling. In other words, is the dramatizatin of a murder-except for the added increment of horror-really any more enthralling than-as in the case of "Raffles "-the story of a jewel thief? After seeing "Raffles", the Playgoer is inclined to think not. It is the primal situation of hunted and hunter that counts; whether the penalty be loss of life or merely loss of liberty is a minor matter. Of course in this...
...directing mounted soldiers (the Russians call such soldiers Cossacks) to intimidate and cast fear into the heart of the people; the workers are afraid to refuse wealth to these men; the rest are the workers, the producers. The first, simply, is that group of folk who live on unearned increment; the second, the great majority from whose extra toil comes the unearned increment in question. Mr. Carver is right. We must do away with the psychology of fear. We must work towards peace and co-operation. We must free the minds of the people so that they will...