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...Guignol's Band are too fast and deafening to hold up to the very end, and the string of fantastic adventures grows increasingly limp and raveled. By then Cèline has, as always, succeeded in hammering his sharpest hallucinations deep into the reader's head. Spit-curled Cascade, lantern-bearing Dr.Clodowitz, sovereign-stuffed Titus van Claben-such characters are engraved in the memory for keeps. No visitor since Thomas Wolfe has described London with such off-beat perception and passion-not the London the tourist or the Briton has ever seen, but the insane metropolis "painted like...
Before the McCarthy v. Army hearings, Jenkins' most important connection with the military was a stint in the Army on the Mexican border in 1916, another stint in the Navy during World War I. He thought about becoming a professional baseball pitcher (he had a wicked spit-ball), but he kept his eye on the law. Always a top scholar, he passed the bar examinations a year before he finished at the University of Tennessee's law school. One of his first jobs in a law office, like the assignment that brought him onto the national scene...
Once, though few of the present-day passengers would believe it, the tortugas ran on a fast, split-second schedule; but that was the era of spit-and-polish British management, and it did not last long. The revolutions of 1914-18 came along, and rival generals commandeered the cars for use as troop transports, armored units or mobile-gun platforms. The equipment came out of the wars beat up and battle-scarred. By that time, buslines, paralleling the trolley routes, were cutting profits so drastically that the private owners of the trolley system could not afford to replace worn...
Amenity Missing. In Gadsden, Ala., Farmer Miles Johnson explained to the judge why he did not send his two children, aged nine and eleven, to school: they both take snuff, and there is no place in the classroom to spit...
...make." he gleefully calls himself. He takes Cathy away from Patrick as briskly and heartlessly as a cat would snatch a piece of meat, and he declaims his creed in the mocking tones of one who will never be shackled by ties of tradition and sentimentality. "We spit on Bonny Prince Charlie and Flora Macdonald. on Rizzio's blood and Mary Queen of Scots. [But of all Company Directors in the City of London and overseas ... of Scottish origin we lick the shoes; all Scotsmen who have succeeded at the English bar are remembered nightly in our orisons...