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What saps a nation's strength and pride? What cramps its manly form and stride, And turns its youth, unsanctified, To Coiltrils and carousers? What spreads corruption's baleful breed And makes the stoutest lad weak-kneed? Be warned--it is, it is indeed The cursed cult of trousers...
...three. His mother, an illiterate woman, carried him to Campbell, Minn, at the age of six. At nine he went to work on the streets. At twelve he could neither read nor write. A corner brawl caught the attention of a passing schoolteacher who was impressed by the lad's ferocity and ignorance, advised education. He entered school, moving from town to town with his toiling mother, gathered and sold junk to make ends meet. He put himself through the University of Minnesota (1902), St. Paul College of Law (1904), became a practising attorney...
...chronicles first appeared. In apology. Humorist Peck said of his Boy: "But he shuffles through life until the time comes for him to make his mark in the world. . . . Then those who said he would bring up in State Prison, remember that he always was a mighty smart lad...
...sensitive lad, for while his mother was writing these memoirs he reminded her of the repugnance he felt at the age of 15 toward a practise he then encountered in his uncle's country house in Silesia...
...woman's soul, next to her heart. The speech is naturally modulated, emotions are patent on the faces, the scenery is as realistic as a vaudeville backdrop. In Kage-No-Chikara (The Shadow Man) a provincial lord steals the fiancee and murders the father of a peasant. This lad then learns the art of fighting and, with the aid of a sinister friend of his father's known as "The Shadow Man," wreaks revenge on the noble. This play exhibits the dueling which is a characteristic element of the Ken-Geki. It consists of fearsome attitudes struck with...