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Pinoculus thinks this is a wonderful life ("0 quam dulcis vita!"), until he is turned into a donkey. Later, after being thrown into the sea to drown and being swallowed by a terrible shark ("Ehi, mihi misero," he wails in the black stomach), he finally gets back home and, as a reward for his general goodness, turns into a boy. "Oh," says Pinoculus, "how ridiculous I was when I was a puppetQuam deridiculus apparui, donee pupulus fueram...
...enabled him to perpetrate many a monkish jest in solemn designs. The first work he ever submitted to Architect Cram showed a young, red-haired craftsman offering a sample window to a stern king with Cram's features. In classical script appeared the legend: Non tam bona quam quaedam fortasse mon tam mala quam quaedam alia certe.* Cram looked it over, asked: "What is that little devil doing whispering in my ear?" Said Willet: "Oh, that's C. J. [Connick] telling you the window is no good." In a recent job, a Spanish War window given...
...nosed Cupid who has pulled a honeycomb from a tree, and suffered severe bee stings as a result. In the upper right hand corner Medievalist Cranach appended his moral: Dum Puer Alveola Furatur Mella Cupido, Furanti Digit um Cuspite Ficit Apis. Sic Etiam Nobis Brevis et Peritura Voluptas Quam Petimus Tristi Mixta Dolore Nocet.* Because of the retreat of many of the best early paintings, the show leans heavily on the mystical 19th Century Romantics that for a brief while made Munich an art centre almost equal to Paris and Rome, profoundly influenced U. S. painters of the "Hudson River...
...Henry Peabody, whose gesture a few years ago in moving to Florida by way of protest when Massachusetts repealed its dry law was a charming contribution to local tabuloalty, has aesped into the headlines again. In a speech defending Prohibition (O quam to memorem virgo) she urged that every woman in the United States should go into morning when the eighteenth amendment is repealed. In no other way can the nation's relapse into the arms of the Harlot of Rum be fittingly symbolized...
Vidit vir prudentissimus oportere homines non modo corporum viribus silvas arare, bestias opporimere feras, Indos barbaros plane superare et dominari, sed mentes hominum, puerorum praecipue, ad res divinas et optimas instituere. Intellexit quoque homines plurimum valere, si mentibus comprehendissent tum quam sapiens et amabilis esset ipse Deus, tum quam pulchro ordine haec rerum natura ab ipso esset creata. Animorum vi vivida sapientes posse, ordine divino intellecto, terram Americanam imperio suo possidere...