Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Breaks from prison, both righteous and illegitimate, are not lacking to this volume. Jack Sheppard, an 18th century felon of note, laughed at locksmiths and was the beadle's despair of his time. His uncanny dexterity at picking his way out of gaol not only cheated the gibbet many times but made him a popular hero. Latude, whom a whim of Madame la Pompadour kept thirty-five years fast incarcerated in the Bastille, retained his sanity by taming rats and spiders in his cell. Then there is the whimsical tale of Benvenuto Cellini and the mad constable of St. Angelo...
...down in nice short sentences, and embellished by an occasional bright idea. So, from the fact that a French filling-station attendant in Quebec had never heard of Socony gasoline, to the no less interesting fact that sufficient okilchao will produce a walking pass-out sans hangover, he notes down everything which makes an imprint on his consciousness in his little brown note-book, later to be transcribed into essays and transmuted into shekels. There's lots of the Morley personality injected, because Morley is a genial, big-hearted, good-living man, and people like to hear about...
...position are not to be desired. Happiness is a more elusive thing and may be found right in anyone's modest cottage on the edge of Middletown. How deeply this Philosophy penetrates, how permanent it will be, I do not guess. It does seem to be, however, a dominant note today. TERTIUS...
...officers of this division are the most outspoken opponents of the movement to halt that growth, even temporarily, by financial restriction. It is clear that no sensible man can overlook this record. But it is equally clear that he cannot overlook the significance of the intrusion of a contrary note into the discussions of this particular department. For that intrusion must be interpreted as bringing to a head all the strong sentiment against the tutorial system, and against its natural and logical rise into the dominating position in the academic machine...
When Signor Mussolini rattles his poniard and makes large, inclusive gestures, the world makes a mental note of it and passes on, becoming less and less perturbed by each bombastic reiteration. But when he takes a definite national step, the world cocks an attentive ear. This time The Leader has planned a reduction, for the whole populace of wages and the cost of living, presumably simultaneously, both of the items to be lowered by ten or twelve per cent. Faced with severe international competition in the shrinking world market, Italy is forced, says Mussolini, to lower costs drastically. And this...