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...lift my lamp beside the golden door...
...sorority house to get in. When University of Missouri students raided nearby Stephens and Christian Colleges, the girls fought back with Coke bottles, mops and plumber's helpers. The male rioters broke windows, doors and screens, damaged furniture, threw eggs and potatoes and stole silverware, cigarette lighters and lamp shades...
...Lamp Oil Internally. Way back in the Thurber cousinhood there was Dr. Beall. a homeopath in a plug hat, who believed in "small doses of mild drugs, a heavy meal three times a day, a good cigar after each one, a little whisky to regulate the heart, a cheerful disposition to relax the system, a healthy skepticism to clear the mind of notions, and a sane moderation in exercise and bathing, either of which could kill a man if he didn't watch out." Doc Beall's most common prescription was lamp oil taken internally. He took...
This avocation had its hazards. Once, while the naturalist was still a medical student, a pet capuchin monkey named Gloria became bored and romped through his study. She dragged a bronze lamp across the room and heaved it into an aquarium. Then she unlocked a bookcase, removed Volumes 2 and 4 of Strumpel's textbooks of medicine, tore them to shreds and stuffed them in the fish tank. Lorenz returned to find fuses blown, empty book covers on the floor, and his sea anemones tangled in torn paper...
...commits suicide with his father's shotgun. When old Thede finds him, he lets Howard have another shell in the chest for good luck. Wife Rosa walks out on Thede, and when last seen, he is holed up alone in his kitchen in dead of winter, lighting a lamp for the window to show the world that the Clearwater Emersons are still kicking...