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...Bull arrived in the U.S. Pushed the New York Herald's critic: "This extraordinary being-this Ole Bull-will produce an excitement throughout he Republic unlike anything that ever took place in our day. He is young-unmarried [sic]-tall and elegantly formed -as beautiful as the Apollo. . . ." One reporter asked Ole what master he had studied under. Said Ole, with a serene stare: "God, the Infinite!" At a Washington concert a Congressman from Alabama rose in the midst of one of Ole's improvisations and shouted: "None of your highfalutin, but give us Hail Columbia, and bear...
...trap. So they collected their warriors to the number of 85 or 90 and surrounded the spot; they then by means of a cord exploded the shell. Down goes Capt. Rains with a Sergt. Corpl. and sixteen men. On coming to the place he found an old "Koon" (sic) dead. Whilst he was kicking or turning the Koon over with his foot the Indians rose up and fired. The men behaved very handsomely, at once formed and extended. The chief of the party was twice seen to step out and fire at the Sergt. who was very active in forming...
...occurred to some of the better citizens of Cambridge that women might study with Harvard professors; the sponsor wrote Harvard's President Eliot that he hoped to enable women to carry education "further than it is possible for them to do in this country, except possibly at Smith College." (Sic). Harvard professors agreed to help, and a small home at 6 Appian Way soon housed 27 studious young ladies...
...what grounds (literary or others) dare you compare Bernanos' book to Hitler's? What have these two books, these two men, in common? You imply, rather you indeed say, that the Lettre aux Anglais is a raving book, a quixotic book, but of "greater sanity" (sic) than Mein Kampf! I have to make an effort to suppose that your collaborator meant well, but the parallel is scandalous. Please do keep in mind that only one out of 100,000 TIME readers has read through and understood Mein Kampf; therefore the majority will conclude that both elucubrations...
...with "a hypodermic needle that looks like an air pump for Zeppelins. . . . You walk away, saying, 'Well, that wasn't too bad.' Then, suddenly, you fall to the floor in a dead faint. When you wake up, you look at your arm and discover the bicep [sic] you never suspected was there...