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...been his fault if critics have been unable to trace the stages of his development. At the age of 41 he has produced some 24 books, including novels, plays, poems, anthologies, travel books, essays, charting his progression from an accomplished satirist to a troubled moralist, from a contented mocker at contemporary society to an earnest preacher to it. Tall (over 6 ft.), extremely thin, bookish, Aldous Huxley gave up his plan to be a doctor at 17, when he nearly went blind. At 20 he published his first book, The Burning Wheel, a volume of poems. After...
...Carrel is a great scientist, an avid mystic who knows no intellectual bonds. He is, besides, a sly mocker who delights in wild rant. Whether his thesis of iatrocracy was meant to be a colossal joke with which to fool members of his profession or whether he offered it in all earnestness with the idea that it would add to his stature as a world thinker he alone knew last week...
Died. Spike, 17, next-to-last surviving carrier pigeon to have served the A. E. F. during the War; of old age; at Fort Monmouth. N. J. The survivor, one-eyed, 18-year-old Mocker, holds the Distinguished Service Medal...
...Manhattan, Charles E. Keck, President of the New York Rotary Club, lifted his voice against author Sinclair Lewis, creator of Babbitt, mocker of business clubmen, lodge brothers, realtors, Maccabees, Elks, Moose, Veiled Phophets etc. Said Rotarian Keck over the radio: "I'm going to take a fall out of Sinclair Lewis. . . He's due for it. If he were a big enough man to tell the story straight, it would be all right. But he fixes up a little city of Zenith, or whatever you call it, and has a little Rotary Club, and tells everybody that a Rotary Club...
...have became a total abstainer. Is not the comparison between your good self and King Solomon irresistable? Aside from the Wisdom of both of you, many a time in his vigorous youth Solomon slaked his thirst with the flowing bowl, but in his old age claimed 'wine is a mocker...