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...FALL GUY?Fussy little worm in a cheap Harlem flat who turns to sting the crook trying to step...
...Century dictionary I read as follows, "Gadfly. The popular name of sundry flies which goad or sting domestic animals. They are comparatively large, very active, voracious and bloodthirsty, with great powers of biting, the mouth parts being highly developed. They also have great powers of flight. The bite is deep and painful, often drawing blood, though not poisonous. In strictness, only the females are gadflies, the males being smaller and quite inoffensive, living on the juices of plants. There are more than a thousand species...
...creature. I once heard a wise man say that what struck you, as you compared the American student with the European student, was the "docility of the American student. Seeming to attack the system, whether of undergraduate credits or doctor's theses, these three papers, are really attempting to sting the student out of his docility. The good student is always an "intractable animal" and how to get rid of him" is the eternal problem of education. With the general theses of these papers most of us are in entire accord. William James said much of it years...
...Tabanidae see classification of Diptera a house fly and a horse fly, having it out through the screen, and by two bits off free verse. One poet thinks that the "buttercup virginity" of the faculty would be more poignant if it could be "decently lyrical." Perhaps this plaint may sting some "mute inglorious Milton" to verse. After all Homer begged his way through seven cities. The vernal note is again struck in a final celebration of James Christopher Grant reading Plato's "Kriton" to the undulations of his rocking chair. When he gets through with the "Crito" he will have...
...shoot on sight anyone attempting to enter a dormitory in other than the legal and recognized fashion. The idea instilled into these young and active scions of the law is not to aim at the offender's head or any damageable part of his anatomy, but attempt instead to sting him a little where it doesn't hurt so much...