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American Candide. In A Cool Million, West burlesqued American optimism of the Horatio Alger type. The book tells of Lemuel Pitkin, who was born in a "humble dwelling much the worse for wear . . . owing to the straitened circumstances of the little family." Like Candide. Lemuel lives out the advice of a philosopher. His is the creed of Nathan "Shagpoke" Whipple, president of the Rat River National Bank and former President of the U.S. In the course of behaving well, e.g., rescuing girls with rich fathers from bolting horses, Lemuel goes to jail, loses a leg, all his teeth...
Despite its title, this is by no means a judicial biography. True, its central character is Lemuel Shaw (Class of 1800), Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1830 to 1860, but readers interested in Shaw's life had best turn to other sources. This book concentrates on his vigorous decisions, which shaped and restated the law, not only of the Commonwealth, but of the nation as well...
...reason why U.S. women outlive men by an average of four years is "our curious cult of manliness," wrote Dr. Lemuel C. McGee, medical director of the Hercules Powder Co., in Today's Health. "The practice of manliness has become a curse-a lethal curse. The American male has been indoctrinated with the philosophy that he must live, work and play at a dizzy pace . . . Whether such behavior is necessary or desirable is rarely considered. The man can take it! He must show others that he can take it and disregard any limitations of his mind or body...
...searching interviews. He kept telling teammates: "I'm tired of that guy following me around." But in the end, Roberts, a careful craftsman himself, loosened up and grew to admire Hillman's persistence. Even when Hillman confessed that he was a loyal Brooklyn rooter whose only son, Lemuel Serrell Hillman III, now nine, has been called "Dodger" since birth, stolid Robin Roberts merely shrugged...
...Bombastes Furioso" was eminently successful. Lemuel Hayward, one of the originators of the show, wrote, "The play went off splendidly. Distaffina wore a low neck and short sleeves, and on introducing a fancy dance, the applause almost shook old Hollis down." The success of Distaffina's "dance" was primarily responsible for the birth of the "hairy legs" tradition. Ever since then, the chorus line has been built around 200-pound football guards, dressed and padded on the lines of Mae West...