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This time the 'Poonsters suspected fraud. They hastened to cash both checks. Their faith in humanity was restored, but the only mail the hapless lass ever received from the funnymen was cancelled check stubs...
There is fantasy, sweeping and bleak, on the top of Baldy Mountain when John the Witch Boy crawls up from his Stygian haunts to search for his mountain lass; tangy amusement at the cracker barrel and at the revival meeting. There is rollicking music from the deep throats of the mountaineers in church, singing "Lonesome Valley" to save a boy and girl who "pleasured themselves" indiscreetly; and there is delicate ballet in an aura of the supernatural when Lista, the Dark Witch, and Croma, the Fair Witch, jealous of Barbara Allen--"we ain't got nothin' again her, only...
Sunless Days. From that time on Aimee spent much time in the courts and in the papers. There was a series of well-publicized battles between her and her mother over the management of the Temple, during one of which the ex-Salvation Army lass claimed that her reverend daughter had punched her in the nose. There were as many well-publicized reconciliations, and in 1930 the two went abroad together, where Aimee preached beside the Sea of Galilee, visited the nightclubs of Paris, and together they had their faces lifted. There was Aimee's third marriage...
...Essayist William Hazlitt was in despair. He claimed that his friends were betraying their revolutionary principles, that Napoleon was "the best hope of the Cause of the Peoples of the earth." When he mixed Napoleonic politics with a tumultuous passion for a local lass, the Lake District peasantry beat Hazlitt up. The advocate of revolution fled to Coleridge's house for fresh shoes. Then he stumbled on to Wordsworth's house, where he shook off his pursuers, borrowed enough money to take him home to London, where direct action was a merely literary theory...
...Notification has just come to me that Stephen, my youngest son, aged 18, a private first :lass in the United States Marine Corps, was killed in action. I have come to New York hoping to receive fuller details regarding the circumstances of my son's death, which occurred so soon after I received his APO number and notice of his reaching his destination overseas...