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...Sixteen years later I turned up in Tokyo, an itinerant free-lance writer, broke and badly in need of a job. By chance I met a member of the faculty of the University of Tokyo. When my professor-acquaintance heard my name, he asked if I were related to the "great" Doctor Hepburn. I explained the relationship. The next day I was offered a position as "Professor of English Conversation" at the Imperial University . . . Wherever I went in Japan doors were opened wide for me because I was a descendant of the great Doctor...
Relative Chastity. Guy's doting mother could find no fault with her good-looking son. In her old age she was to recall proudly that "His childhood was absolutely chaste. It was not until he was sixteen that he had his first liaison, with the lovely E ..." A mother who thought 16 an advanced age for the beginning of love was hardly likely to overtrain him in discipline. Accordingly, when the family lost its fortune in the Franco-Prussian war and Guy had to become a clerk in Paris, he complained bitterly...
While the Dunces like to consider themselves an influential phase of Dunster House activity, yet, short of stuffing the ballot box, it is doubtful if our sixteen harmonizers could "choose seven for House Committee" as Tuesdays CRIMSON announced. It is true that the Dunces admit to membership only Dunster House men, but the converse of the axiom is not true. Let the CRIMSON take warning. There have been disgruntled rumblings from the electorate ever the error. Such phrases as "defamation of character," "libel," and "it wasn't the beer, it was the potato chips" have been heard since. John...
...Sixteen minutes later the plane exploded and crashed at Sault au Cochon, 90 minutes before its arrival at Baie Comeau, where the package would have been taken...
...Sixteen hundred years ago no proper Roman's day was complete without a visit to the public baths, and a favorite was the great new one built by Emperor Caracalla below the Aventine Hill. Tunics and togas checked, the patrons could idle away hours beside the marble pools, move leisurely from the steamy heat of the calidarium to the cool waters of the frigidarium, let slaves massage them with perfumed oils while they pondered politics, poetry and philosophy...