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...extremely discouraging to pick up such a text book, only to find that the passages quoted as examples are from speeches and writings of the middle of the last century and long ago forgotten. The ardor of the most interested young student is smothered if he is asked to paw over a dry and dusty question brought many years ago to a decision or a working compromise...
...dummy American" manufactured out of whole cloth by Franklin, and the age which produced him, has been bandied about by the subsequent writers until by the time of Walt Whitman there is nothing to do but to paw over the shredded remains. In him Mr. Lawrence finds "all that false exuberance. All those lists of things boiled in one pudding-cloth". Whitman is at the end of the road, at the very verge of the precipice...
...family. When he reached the age of employment-an early age-he went to work for his brother, Nazareth, a shoemaker. But Antonio became only an indifferent cobbler. He learned to sole a shoe only passably, and regarded the putting on of O'Sullivan and Cat's Paw heels a sad bore. He had a great passion for Caruso records, and at times when he should have been hammering and stitching he cranked a phonograph and listened, rapt. At his work he always sang...
...just returned from expeditions to Australia and South America in search of specimens. Such travel has its compensations. There is considerable distinction in being on terms of familiarity with a live cassowary, to say nothing of a wallaroo. These men derive great satisfaction from pacing the deck with the paw of a wallaby tucked under one arm, and a cortege consisting of a duck-billed platypus, a green opossum and wombats trailing in the rear. One ship brought a huge tortoise, the last of his race, giant lizards, penguins and cormorants that had forgotten...
...commence the ardent one-act struggle for the bays? Who, but the Little Theatre of Bridgeport in The Rut, a drama by Sara Sherman Pryor? From the rising of the curtain upon that production on Monday to the falling of it upon the last scene of The Monkey's Paw, by W. W. Jacobs, produced by the Montclair Players of Montclair on Friday, how the gallant conflict raged...