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...Radnor, a "Sir" and a gentleman, but not as aristocratic as he looked, had enough money for his wants. His wants were to float about the world, now as a well-connected butterfly, now as an insect with a taste for carrion. In short, Sir Francis was a double-lifer...
...Lifer's TIME...
...lifer in Sing Sing. But, I am a ''Lifer" in San Quentin, which, to all intents and purposes, is the same thing. But when you state that ''time" is unimportant to a "lifer," you merely admit an unconsidered contemplation of a "lifer's" outlook.* As a matter of fact, time is of more importance to a "lifer" who is alive than it is to the ordinary termer. The termer has a more or less definite time of freedom to look forward to. But the lifer has constantly before him the vision of a possible parole...
...Lifer Gingell for value received, one year's subscription to TIME.-ED. Voice Raised, Temper Lost Sirs...
Author Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald's title implies that the world his latest stories tell about is cockeyed, arsy-versy. A literary double-lifer, he has concentrated his serious ambition on his few novels, written his many magazine stories simply to make money. Though critics sniff at them, say they sound like thorns crackling under a pot, readers forgive him the pot for the sake of the crackling. Of this collection of 18 stories, all are reprinted from magazines...