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Publication of the new rules caused the unconvicted public to marvel at "compensations" allowed by the old code. Hereafter, prisoners receiving indeterminate sentences ("five to ten" or "ten to fifteen" years) must serve the minimum term named. (Before, if sentenced for "five to ten years," a prisoner might get out in three years and nine months by earning, for "satisfactory work" and good behavior, three months' "compensation" in each of his first four years...
Despite this clatter, one cannot help but marvel at the post-mortem influence of the explorer. Family, nation, and the land of his adventure, not to mention the ghosts of terror and the voices of romance, awake to settle the disposition of his dust. The whole matter is trivial, but for those who are inclined to be dreamy and sentimental--which includes the whole world for moments at a time this fame and fortune of a braggard, which transcends our centuries, has a glory and scope fraught with opportunity for golden musing. Idle it is, but pleasant...
...that naturally existed between two self-assertive individualists who could agree on many things; and in one strong-minded man's appreciation of another's "beautiful thinking machine." Also, Mr. Bok, with a self-educated man's capacity for admiring education in others, never ceased to marvel at Mr. Wilson's command of language, including slang. He even asked Mr. Wilson once how he came by his facile diction, and the then president of Princeton is said to have explained: "From my father. He had a reverence for words, and he would never allow...
...romance of the reaper and the life of its prophet are forgotten, perhaps, in the cities. But in the fields of the world, men hitch everything from gas tractors to camels and musk oxen ahead of their harvesting machinery and marvel, as regularly as the world's cereals ripen, at the power over the earth given them by one man's brain...
...CHEYNEY-Ina Claire and a highly polished troupe in a story of stolen pearls in the English nobility. THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN-The last few weeks of the tale of $20,000 behind the scenes in a Broadway show. Is ZAT So?-Prizefighters and society rub elbows and marvel at each other's vocabularies. MUSICAL Good figures, good fun and good voices are supplied in these: Tip-Toes, Sunny, Artists and Models, The Cocoanuts, The Vagabond King, The Student Prince and No, No, Nanette...