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...philosopher king, Frederick the Great, was described by one British observer as "the completest tyrant God ever made. I had rather be a post horse than his first Minister, or his brother, or his wife." The age worshiped good sense, yet "the High Priest of Reason," Dr. Johnson, would scrape his knuckles with a penknife till they were raw, and insisted on touching every post when walking down a street...
...auditorium filled with some 4,000 Navy and Marine officers marched spray-fresh Navy Secretary John B. Connally Jr. to punch at the featherbed. Connally had called the meeting of every officer in the Washington area, including 65 admirals and Marine generals, to inform them that the Navy must scrape off its barnacles and gear for space-age change...
...visitors from the University of Pennsylvania, however, endorsed Radcliffe's "almost ideal" educational set-up. "There is a thirst for knowledge that Penn lacks," affirmed Jacqueline L. Zahn, Penn '62. "Radcliffe comes closer to realizing its academic goals. At Penn we just seem to scrape the surface...
...chestnuts and cereals, Kuniyoshi got his first glimpse of the U.S. through the prosperous-looking tourists who came into town. When the time came for him to be called up into the imperial army, he decided that the U.S. was where he wanted to be. His father managed to scrape together $200 for him, but Kuniyoshi was so confident about the land of opportunity that just after he landed in Seattle in 1906 he sent all but $50 back...
...This Happens . . ." Later that afternoon Adele Mailer described the details of that scrape to the police; she readily admitted that her husband had stabbed her with a 2-inch penknife soon after the party when she was preparing for bed. "He was depressed. He just came at me with a funny look in his eye. He didn't say a word. There was no reason. He just looked at me. Then he stabbed me." That night detectives found Mailer, neatly dressed and unshaven, sitting on a hospital bench near his wife's room...