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...registers-Daniel in his big bargain-sale Loop department store; Thane as the bellicose Black Bear of the wheat pit-to the virtual exclusion of the minor traits and actions by which an individual emerges from a type. The degeneracy of Daniel Pardway's issue-Gene into "a lout among gentleman, a gentleman among louts;" Bert into a floorwalker and window-dresser; Phoebe into a dreamy sadist, via sex-starvation; Freddie into a Princeton fop, proud wastrel and frayed dope fiend-seems mechanical, arbitrary. Like their father, the reader sees little of these children until it is time...
...Nazim Pasha's executioner, a man of skill, drew the noose tight under one ear. Ensued "a perfect hanging." The head, jerked to one side by the knot, snapped the neck vertebra, bringing instant death. Less fortunate was Deputy Hilmi Bey. His hangman, a clumsy lout, was forced to hang him twice...
...clumsy lout of a hangman...
...Woodrow Wilson separated the two statesmen. Then Clemenceau offered Lloyd George satisfaction either with swords or pistols?as soon as Lloyd George had resided in France lout; enough to acquire a domicile there...
Doubtless the Boy scout Movement is familiar to many. It is a non-sectarian effort, now extending throughout this country and England, with the aim of utilizing the normal impulses of boys for lout-of-door life and for adventure, by organizing them into group under an older leader to aid in their development into alert, useful citizens. The movement is meant for all classes of boys and the groups are organized in sympathy with and not in opposition to existing organizations...