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...Ovila Dionne, who forgot to shave, wandered about, weeping: "Five of them. . . . I'm the sort of man they should keep in jail. . . . No bigger than my thumb . . . five more! ... I am not strong." Unsympathetic were his rustic French-Canadian friends, who chaffed him roundly, not neglecting to remind him that Ovila means ''little...
...would not urge the breaking down of these indifferent circles. More often than not the bond is one of a healthy mutuality of intellectual interests. Nor do we urge forced congeniality. We would but remind these who attend the Fence Orations today that if we are to live as social beings, we must cultivate the ability to bend our interests on occasion, so as to reach out of our narrow circles and stand on common ground with these who, despite all the snobberies in the world, are our follow men. Yale News...
...under the perpetual threat of losing their visas, and therefore their jobs. . . . The result is that news from Russia is a joke." The news Author Muggeridge retails (especially of the foreign hangers-on, cranks, visitors, converts) is also a joke, boisterously but bitterly told. Some of his wilder scenes remind the reader of Evelyn Waugh...
...about liquor. It is a grand chance to chance yourself with the temperance cause without the sledgehammer type of reformer. Do sea if any of the boys at Harvard aren't interested." A last smile and before we knew it. We were left with but a faint aroma to remind us of this amazing woman's presence...
...slogan originated with a raw bus boy who, when Janssen asked him to summon the head waiter, shouted "Janssen wants to see you." To remind himself to reprimand the boy Janssen jotted the phrase in his notebook. Its catchiness appealed to him and he repeated it on 50 postcards, mailed them to his friends. Next night, he swears, all 50 appeared at his Hofbrau...