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...question, "Don't you know that lightning never strikes twice in the same place?" a typical, tattered, cheerful Neapolitan will reply, "Maybe in your country, Signore (shrug), that...
...part of its readers. Its accustomed function is to amuse, to satirize, even to irritate, but seldom to provoke serious thought. Beneath the parody surface of the current "Protest of the Masses" number, however, there is much that can neither be ignored nor dismissed with an indulgent shrug...
...Boston Transcript should be sufficient to familiarize any reader with such characteristics of that paper as political prejudice or smug contempt for new and radical ideas. No one is surprised to see Transcript editors acclaim as inspired every word which issues from a Republican month, dismiss with a shrug the work of advanced political thinkers, or threaten the country with imminent ruin from communist machinations. But complete as the conservative and reactionary attitude of the Transcript may usually be, it is still able on occasion to surprise the most constant of its readers...
...impression that he is going to concentrate in English: during his first year the impression, unless, stirred up and turned over, hardens and become a resolution. That is why, I believe, one encounters so many seniors who, when asked what their field of concentration is, answer with a weary shrug. 'Oh, English.' What is necessary is an adviser who at the outset will devote time to explaining thoroughly all the varied possibilities that the freshman may choose: an adviser, let it be said, who has intelligence enough also to know what the freshman ought to take, and regardless of what...
...place of honor on a school-house porch, requested him to depart. She did not "want him around," said Mrs. Reynolds. Insulted, Samy Pasha and his party returned to their hotel. Not until Governor Byrd apologized in person for Mrs. Reynolds' stupid race-blindness did Samy Pasha shrug his smooth shoulders and say, good-naturedly: "It's all right. We forget...