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...always thought that Shakspere was batty when he said a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. What there is about the word rose that calls up images of sweetly perfumed balconies on sultry moon-lit evenings in the spring, and maidens eager to be stormed thereon, and oh! so tenderly captured, we don't know. But we're perfectly sure that if the vicissitudes of language had caused Romeo to climb by a trellis of cucumbers to Juliet's bower to gain that soul-stirring kiss, the play might as well not have been written. There...
...with a slit in the top there instead. But students don't go around loaded with pennies, and they began to establish credit accounts by depositing dimes and drawing thereon day by day. And the graph of his profits and losses looked like a drunk trying to write "swimming...
...high-flown language of the day, the purpose of the book is set forth in the title pages: that "young gentlemen may read many pleasant fancies and fine devices, and thereon meditate divers sweet conceits to court the love of fair ladies and gentlewomen...
...that no liquor taxes go uncollected, the program of the A.T.U. smacks of nothing so much as simple faith in Pussyfoot Johnson's lamented Prohibition system: the use of crude strong-arm tactics as the remedy for basic ills. Bootlegging is admittedly profitable because liquor is scarce and taxes thereon out of all proportion to the value of the commodity. Yet not only does the A.T.U. plan to keep taxes at existing skyscraper levels, but by wiping out illegitimate distilleries, it will also reduce by half the amount of available alcohol now on the market. Without any further provision...
...meanings and values of life. He further believes that Christianity, ideally, seizes the essence of human life and ought therefore to be eternal. It may be destroyed, he emphatically warns, by entangling itself with a particular account of matters of fact, matters irrelevant to its ideal significance. Thereon hangs a more complex problem. The O'Neill drama attempts to express this ideal significance in relation to one man's emotions. O'Neill has gone along with Santayana and T. S. Eliot, towards a general reconsideration of the religious problem...