Word: rubbishing
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...Vagabond, swirling in the haze which fills his tower, finds himself possessed of the gift of clairvoyance. Before his glassy eyes, a vision swims. . . a vision of himself, a graduate and fifteen years out of college. He is sitting in a room whose floors are a hell of rubbish, and whose walls are decorated with photographs in execrable taste. Two small children are at his feet, scrawling on the floor with large blue pencils, and giving vent, periodically, to low, retching noises. From some far place, the howling of another child penetrates. The Vagabond is disconsolate, and does not realize...
...crack in the Divine Plan. Joel does his best to widen the crack by comparing Man's brain to Kamongo's lung, both ingenious developments, neither leading anywhere much. Joel likens life to whirlpools in a stream of energy, likens the living matter of cells and bodies to inorganic rubbish whirlpool-caught. The gyroscopic adjustment of the whirlpool to obstacles in its course gives an illusion of intelligent purpose to the rubbish it holds together. Really, all the purpose animating the rubbish is to spin, to keep on spinning...
...good British answer to this would be: "My dear old chap, I suppose you know you're talking rubbish!" But Chief British Delegate Sir John Simon was not in good form at the moment. Instead up rose charming Senor Salvador de Madariaga, the Spanish Chief Delegate. Sure of the ovation he was about to receive, he asked: ''May I tell a story of how the animals met to discuss disarmament...
...educable. Democrat Thomas Jefferson realized that this is not so when he planned 20 grammar schools in Virginia, in each of which only one student per class would be allowed to remain a full six years, so that "20 of the best geniuses shall be raked from the rubbish annually." Out of these 20, only ten would be allowed to go to William & Mary College. But the Jefferson plan was not followed...
...valued at a million francs, had been presented to the town of Lyons many years ago by Cardinal Fesch, uncle of Napoleon, and subsequently had disappeared from sight. It was discovered by Mr. Harris and a British associate, Dr. Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey, among a pile of old rubbish in a small room in the Military School at Lyons, where it had lain unnoticed for half a century...