Word: rascals
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...down, and the principle of indeterminacy has taken its place. There is great difference of opinion at present as to whether this is a genuine discovery, or as to whether it is a merely temporary technical device." Einstein thinks "strict causality" will some day be reinstated; Eddington thinks that rascal is out for good. On the whole, says Sullivan, man should lift up his heart again, contemplate the universe with renewed hope. Science is no longer implacable and omniscient; it has become "selfconscious and comparatively humble. . . . The discovery that science no longer compels us to believe in our own essential...
...Joan Barry), a fuzzy British tourist with a regurgitative chuckle (Gordon Harker), a U. S. millionaire traveling with his secretary, a chief of police, a nervous spinster. The picture thief's accomplice renews an old romance with the cinemactress while the picture thief is murdering a timid little rascal for stealing a Van Dyck which, through a confusion of briefcases, finds its way into the compartment of the U. S. millionaire. The businessman is suspected of the murder, cleared about the time the train reaches Rome...
...romantically inclined he would have been quickly disillusioned; he soon found the slave's panegyrics on chivalry were exaggerated. But then he came to Tintagel, met lovely Isolde, cowardly King Mark's Irish bride. Isolde had no eyes for anyone but Tristan, a light-loving, thick-skinned rascal, Mark's hated nephew. That was all right with Palamede. His intentions toward her were almost unbelievably honorable. He never noticed that Brangain. Isolde's pretty cousin, was his for the taking. In the ensuing Christian intrigues heathen Palamede stood firm and pure. But finally he could stand...
...mumbled: "Now I don't know whether I'm John's son or not. But I wouldn't go through those court hearings again if I was positive." His public, doubting him shrewd enough to have concocted his case, waited to see what manner of rascal the District Attorney would show up as author of a plot...
...Gossoon, by George Shiels (new). A young rascal flies about the country on a motorcycle, drinks, bets on the dogs, chases after every petticoat he sees, is finally reformed by a shrewd colleen with more cunning than her elders...