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...extraordinary degree, apart from legitimate compression of phrase, Hart Crane developed a personal idiom, and a habit of mixed metaphor, which frequently makes it impossible to translate his meaning into English. And occasionally he was betrayed into an inflated rhetoric, a jungle of language into which it is profitless to venture...
...would be paid a salary?possibly $5,000 or $10,000?by a State agency controlling all legal services. He would be assigned to cases much as attorneys are now assigned by the court. Corporate litigation would languish and die. The Law, and like it Medicine, would become a profitless institutional affair for the common good...
...ingots and divide them into little hunks. But easier to get and stow away are U. S. eagles ($10 gold pieces). Double eagles ($20 pieces) were advertised in French newspapers last week at $21.50 (550 fr.); the price has been as high as $25. A profitless nuisance to New York banks. Jean Frenchman, if he still wants eagles, must now send an agent to a Federal Reserve Bank or the U. S. Assay office. (Avaricious U. S. citizens can, of course, continue to get eagles from any bank?see P-15-) Meanwhile, Bombay banks continued to send gold to London...
...year ago, Chicagoans were surprised to find 2,000 bewildered, chilly box turtles crawling about a vacant lot on Michigan Avenue. Apparently they had been abandoned by someone who had planned to commercialize turtle-racing, found it profitless. The turtles were liberated in Duneland near Waukegan, Ill. (TIME...
...humane society's theory: some one had planned to commercialize turtle-racing, found it profitless, turned his imported racers loose rather than feed them...