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...stanza from Shelley's To a Skylark or cannot explain the meaning of the Feast of Lupercal (a Roman fertility rite*), but he walks in fear of Father Alphonsus McSwiney, Dean of Discipline, a clerical careerist and bully whose belief it is that "no boy [is] stouter than a good cane" and that a man is, after all, only a layman. Dev knows less about fertility rites than the boys. At 37, he has never made love to a woman ("It was the education in Ireland, dammit, he had said it many a time ... it was a matter...
...campaign" that Nixon conducts. The fairdealing New York Post editorialized: "One might almost say this is a national emergency." And Oklahoma's Senator Robert Kerr, the nation's windiest master of the last word, proclaimed: "Unless the President's got a stronger back and a stouter heart than I think he has, that load, i.e., Nixon, will get awful heavy before November...
...quite grey and stylishly stouter than she was during her twelve years as the nation's First Lady, Mrs. Roosevelt confided that her greatest pleasure now comes from "work . . . and [having] no people dependent on me to take my time." She lives alone in an apartment on Manhattan's East 62nd Street, celebrated her birthday at Hyde Park with all of her children present except Elliott (expected later). For exercise she no longer rides horseback through the Putnam County woods, but often strolls over the countryside with her two Scotties, one a grandson of F.D.R.'s famed...
...paid, and in the event of his capture, would not enjoy the protection afforded to regular soldiers. His gallantry, devotion to his chosen duty, and obedience have been exemplary. Those who fought at his side during his six months' service with us could not wish for a stouter comrade...
...Potomac, a one-day pause in his steady, and increasingly grim, preoccupation with his job. He was in touch, by radio, with the news from Korea, also increasingly grim. The current was carrying him on. It seemed only a question of time before President Truman would have to take stouter action. The nation's preparations, as Bernard Baruch had well said, had to be keyed to the worst possibilities of Russian behavior, not to the least dislocation of the U.S. economy...