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Dadgum it! A friend o' mine hand me a passel o' ed'torial pages from the CRIMSON 'tother day, as I wuz warmin' m'self next th' potbellied stove up to th' country store. They wuz mark'd all over with blue crayon like they wuz important ,er somethin...
When I read 'em, I jump up, I did, an' durn near swaller'd my quid o' baccy. Seems like them college fellers has it in real bar fer Joe M'Carthy, 'Course, when I think o' some o' th' things Joe says 'bout Pussy an' commie-coodlin' at Harvard, can't say as I blame 'em. An' th' way th' Sen'tor wuz feudin' with thet army feller (heard that one over in th' ray-dee-o), I kin git pretty damn well het up m'self...
...qualify for sophomore standing, a high school graduate must attain outstanding marks on the Placement tests in at least three of th fields of Biology Chemistry, English, History, Languages, Mathematics, and Physics. Any student who receives sophomore standing will be encouraged to remain in the Houses for four years and to take courses in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in the senior year as an undergraduate...
...seen five or six convicts a-runnin' up & down and a-blowin' whistles. They was . . . And friends, Ah seen that evenin' the awfullest fight that Ah have ever seen in mah life. Ah did. They would run at one another and kick one another and th'ow one another down and stomp on one another and grind their feet in one another and Ah don't know what-all-and jest as fast as one o' them'd get hurt, they'd tote him off and run another...
...government announced its intention to let the penal colony "disappear by extinction." Red tape, lassitude and the demands of World War II slowed down the process, but last February the government decided to bring home the last convicts and libérés. Last week Théodore Roussel, a freed man who had spent more than 50 of his 76 years in French Guiana for a long-forgotten robbery, gazed blankly at the soft landscape of his native land. "I can't blame anyone but myself," he said of his wasted life. "I was headstrong...