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...have the courage of his conviction; Nancibel loved Wenny, but she didn't dare believe it. So the hour went by and Wenny shot himself and was luckier than the other two who went on living in Limbo-Nancibel, at the last, a pathetic dabbler in the stale waters of ineffective spiritualism; Fanshawe, the fastidious, doomed to a dull eternity of tea with professors' wives. A bitter, excellent novel of youth's frustration...
...dead, little country town. Later, Herald College where he had had a prize scholarship, and which he found as vapid as Janet, on the whole, found her college. Adventures with girls, an attempt at treading the primrose path (abandoned when he discovered those well advertised flowers a little too stale for enjoyment), a search for the beauty and truth of life in odd exploits that led, apparently, nowhere; Sally the beautiful, and their engagement, broken, mended, broken; Sally, the unlucky, crushed pitilessly by circumstance she was not steely enough to defy; meeting Janet, at that time a child, and, from...
Dante Pierce is the publisher of the Iowa Homestead, one of the great farm journals of that state. He will be the next Secretary of Agriculture, if the custom of appointing editors of Iowa farm journals* does not stale. Dante Pierce had much to do with putting Smith Wildman Brookhart into the Senate...
...cannot wither him, nor custom stale His infinite variety." Concluding, the ex-Secretary of War turned to the ex-Premier and said: " You are welcome, sir, to the United States...
...historian, the Lieutenant Governor of Papua, says, they are a "race of kindly killers". Now what is murder, however exquisitely it may be performed, without the accompanying heat of strong passions? Instead of shuddering deliciously the average man, if he were a spectator, would probably laugh and crack a stale joke until he was split by a spear...