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...mistaken identity: 1) because he had concluded his book The Economic Consequences of the Peace with a few lines from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, a lot of people got the idea that Keynes himself had written them; 2) another time he quoted 20 lines of Milton's Samson Agonistes, and was paid for them "at so much a word . . . though my glory was a little dimmed by their being printed as prose...
...best time, not the worst. There will be others to follow, but his memory will be, in the world security talks, a touchstone to sound principles by. I suspect he will be the most potent of influences, being dead. . . . I echo the closing words of Milton's Samson Agonistes...
Both camps are dead-sure of victory. Miss O. U. Kidd, Radcliffe '43 (slightly retarded) has come forth with this statement, "What Delilah did to Samson and what Frankie did to Johnnie ain't half of what we're goin' to do to the Crimson crew tomorrow...
...military use of fire, which goes back at least to Samson's day (he tied firebrands to the tails of 300 foxes and loosed them in the fields of the Philistines) has been developed in World War II to a fearsome degree. At the beginning of the war, both sides relied mainly on thermite and magnesium-filled bombs. Such bombs, as every air-raid warden knows, burn with terrible fury but are comparatively easy to put out if attacked in time...
...Francisco a divorce suit slowed almost to a halt while Lieut, and Mrs. Rudolph Samson wrangled over custody of an English bulldog...