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...first two mistresses were twice his age. People of all sorts, from grocery clerks to emperors, fired his imagination to write about them. In the meantime, he loved carriages, good wine, sleek clothes, expensive food. He ran up debts of 150,000 francs and trying to extricate himself by scatter-brained schemes, increased them. His economic principle was that spending more money means the necessity for earning more money, and as his only sure way of earning more money was to write more books, this principle accounts for the existence of many a Balzac masterpiece...
...Britishers will pursue a large variety of subjects in the U. S.-ranging from bacteriology to the Scottish influence in 18th Century America, from agricultural geography to city planning, from economics to inter-racial problems, from law to electrochemistry. They will scatter themselves at many a university: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Clark (at Worcester, Mass.), Chicago, Michigan, North Carolina, Stanford...
...conquerors are currently honored, termed "World's Champion," richly rewarded. The vanquished, less honored, also receive goodly purses. Players scatter back to native farm, garage and couch; magnates balance their books; another major league season has passed into history...
...OFFICE is not a mere tempest in a tumbler of water, but it is an ambitious ocean of cards and parcels, a veritable whirlwind, and while riding 'THIS WHIRLWIND,' we must 'DIRECT THE STORM.' "WILL YOU BE OUR RAINBOW ? By shopping early and mailing early, scatter our usual seven day storm over a twelve day whirlwind. . . . Let's humanize Christmas." (Signed) W. J. O'CALLAGHAN Postmaster Said critics: "Hail to Dr. O'Callaghan-advertiser, humanizer-a scholar† among Post-masters...
...Phidias. Scholars have hinted that the figure owed its fame to these entertaining adornments, but Roman writers commented on the power, at once placid and stern, a sort of deep pagan content, that lived in the head. Here was no irritable Roman Jove, waiting at the least vexation to scatter thunderbolts in all directions like sparklers, but a Grecian gentleman, portentous as a hill, poised serenely as a wave...