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Last week in the remote hamlet of Langdale, the Hound Trailing Association, which supervises austerity's fox hunt, had 36 hounds straining at the leash for one of the H.T.A.'s spring trails. Behind the hounds, and mingling with the spectators, a score of bookies (legal in England) were grabbing up money hand over fist as they sang out the fast-changing odds. Suddenly, clambering over the rocky ground, a man appeared, dragging a foul-smelling concoction known as chemerly (rags soaked in a blend of aniseed, turpentine and urine). He was the trail-layer...
...family: George Phelps, his wife and children, including Filbert, a chillingly destructive child. In one cartoon, Mrs. Phelps is shown applying for a job as a civilian-defense volunteer, with Filbert stealthily preparing a dynamite charge to blow up the office, and another child-at the end of a leash-growling savagely at a terrified dog. Asks the startled clerk: "And you say you have experience with riots, first aid, salvage and repair, a knowledge of weapons and nothing but contempt for the atom bomb...
...hawk until he was only a few inches away. The next step was to fly Gos against live game. But the end came suddenly. Gos flew to the end of his creance, snapped it, and soared free as the day he was born-except for a leather leash tying his legs. White chased him in vain. For three days Gos soared overhead in tremendous circuits of exultation. Then he flew away...
...history of the 20th century. 'One hundred years from now I'm the only newspaperman they'll remember,' he told a private audience ... He depicts himself as the eternal friend of the underdog ... his only requirement is that the underdog remain forever on his leash...
...time and to become a moneymaker" and wrote passable poetry which no one read, died when the boy was only seven. His mother was, in Historian Henry Adams' description, "another survival of rare American stock: Davis of Plymouth, Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, Griswold of Connecticut, with the usual leash of Senators, Cabinet officers, and other such ornaments in her ancestry." Inevitably, from her and his grandfather, young Cabot acquired a sense of membership in a class which assumed that public service was a duty. Grandfather Lodge was the scholar in politics, arrogant, cultivated and intelligent. Henry Adams, a lifelong...