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...without the madness." The interview was typical of the author. He was not, like Boswell, "out with his notebook and pencil as soon as the car left the gate." In his own words, he says, "To me it all seems to have passed in a dream, ending with a stirrup-cup of John Haig and the kindest of partings...
...fight on. Even now that the bugles would blow no more, he could think of nothing but the war that had been his life; his proudest memory would always be that as the Old Man rode slowly by for the last time, he had reached out and touched his stirrup...
...clock on a cloudy April morning two horsemen clattered up to the country home of Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd in Charles County, Md., 30 mi. southeast of Washington. One's face was tight with pain and his left leg, booted and spurred, hung limp from the stirrup. The other, a chinless, watery-eyed youth, helped his companion dismount, hobble into the house. Dr. Mudd received them in his nightshirt. A kindly, cultured young physician, he was already well established in his country practice, well-liked and well-to-do. He set the hurt man's broken...
...describes the treatment given Arthur F. Duffey '36: "We were walking along. . . doing nothing. . . The policeman charged us and my companion, Arthur Duffey, stumbled, grasping at the policeman to save himself from falling. As the officer rode past, he kicked Duffey in the back of the head with his stirrup. Duffey fell and crawled under a fence. . . An officer came up and kicked Duffey several times as he was crawling. . . A plainclothesman. . . identified as Officer Gouldston then came up and joined in beating Duffey...
...particularly anxious to give a stirrup-cup to the political theory of the Nationalist order of things. The happy result of this emphasis on things theoretical is that the Fascist reader can contentedly describe the volume as bunk, the internationally minded Socialist can contentedly read about the development of a world "communal organization", and the old school liberal can contentedly pore over an internationalism based on natural law and democracy. Even the critic can contentedly point to inconsistencies like the building up of an analogy between the individual citizen under municipal law and the individual state under international law, which...