Word: swillingness
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Emperor Haile Selassie, who looks like an Old-Testament-bearded Spanish Jew, is a great fixer. He is said to have poisoned his way to the throne (TIME, Oct. 8, 1928). As he tyrannically and ably rules his hot-blood-swilling Abyssinians (meaning "mixed peoples") he is careful to keep...
Occasionally Doblin's pages read like a parody of Joyce: "At twenty-three minutes, seventeen seconds after eight, another man steps up to the bar, the milling-bar, the swilling-bar, a fellow-one, two. three, four, five, six, seven, all good children go to heaven-who might it...
Nov. 25. Comrade Ratsky coincides to the letter with my opinion of Harvard. The great thing, he says, is to make them realize what we think of them. We must do something big, something enduring. Today, accordingly, as we sat through a tedious hour in Harvard 6, Comrade Ratsky called...