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...bent her huge head in self-conscious sorrow. When the brass horns shouted, she flapped the floor with a map of Africa, her right ear. For violins and cellos, ehe rolled her small bright eye. Then, when the crazy, jazzy saxophone blew a blue note, Poetre filled the geyser-ish trumpet of her nose with air and water, blew out a moan more liquid than the trombone's. In wet clothes and a panic the minstrels scurried off. Squirrels. On the roof of a house in Canandaigua, N. Y., there stood a fat squirrel who looked like "Babe" Ruth...
...Mesopotamia, home of Nebuchadnezzar, birthplace of Abraham, the joint digging of the Brit- ish Museum and the University of Pennsylvania was continued. Finds included records of kings unknown to history, who reigned in 3500 B. C. Their graves contained hoards of gold and copper spearheads (in bundles), chisels, arrows (by the quiverful), a mace, axheads, adzes, beads and pendants of lapis lazuli; a gold vanity box, complete with tweezers; a gaming board...
...What does Ish kabibble mean in English...
Leaving aside the defects of Mr. Merritt's power as a conjurer, the reader who is in search of an antidote to the present school of literary photography will doubtless enjoy "The Ship of Ish, tar." It is an adventurous glimpse at at a forgotten civilization which the author has convincingly re-created. There are to be sure, dull parts in the story, and at times the narrator loses himself and his reader in a labyrinth of suggestive but unintelligible passages. A glance at the jacket, however, is reassuring. There is no mention of subtle satire or of involved philosophical...
...ish of pride and conceit which accompanied this remarkable declaration...