Word: noted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Grand Forks with $2.50 in his pocket, Davies opened a law office "about the size of a lavatory." He won his first case, a suit for payment on a promissory note. Says he: "It wasn't a very difficult case. The man owed the money." In 1932 Davies was elected municipal judge (at $135 a month) in Grand Forks; he served two terms and retired in 1940 because "I didn't want to get tagged with the title of police-court judge." He entered the Army as a lieutenant in 1942, held down various Stateside desk...
...This note, however true in itself, rings somewhat strange at the end of a turbulent story of an era in which religious "competition" meant fire and death. The need for tolerance is thus the major moral Durant draws from the Reformation-which would never have happened had not "intolerant" men been willing to die (or kill) for their beliefs. Yet this somewhat anticlimactic touch of gentle rationalism does not diminish the excellence of Author Durant's work, and in a way perhaps foreshadows the subject of his next volume, The Age of Reason, to be published in five years...
Next Tuesday morning the mail boxes in Lowell and Leverett will be opened as usual about 9:30 or 10 and a uniformed arm will reach in to place the usual bills, letters, circulars, and postcards in the little cubbyholes. But sharp-eyed members of these Houses will note that for the first time in 22 years, the boxes will opened by a new man, and the hand under the uniform will be different. For veteran letter carrier Andy Corr is retiring after bringing Bellboys and Bunnies news from home for over 20 years...
...perhaps talking to a tutor, a Cambridge poet, or a student he knows well. His books, most of them first editions, stand in wall shelves or lie scattered at random on a large table in the center of the room. A shiny blue Anchor Books stand adds the one note of trimness and order to the place...
...rescuers were in far worse shape than the rescued. The Pasha reluctantly accompanied Stanley back to civilization, fell on his head during the welcoming ceremonies, and hurried back into the interior, where he was murdered. Stanley dismissed him as a "nearsighted, faithless, ungrateful little man"; even fairer judges must note that the Pasha was slow-witted enough to miss a pretty neat line of dialogue. As the great explorer-journalist stepped out of his tent amid rifle salutes, the Pasha unforgivably failed to say: "Mr. Stanley, I presume...