Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grim thing anyhow for a son to live in the shadow of his father's greatness. Only the very great shine through the umbra? Alexander, son of Philip; Alexander, fils de Dumas pere; William, son of the elder Pitt. But what was the waning fortune of the sons of Cromwell, Napolean, Caesar...
Zizi, a desperate young thing, wandered through the Bois de Boulogne, where lovers are wont to prowl. But the lovers had fled far away leaving the Bois empty, save for gendarmes. Three days Zizi spent in the park while the man who had first wooed her from the Malayan jungle, wrung his hands in distress. Then one morning she left the park to visit a boys' school. The master spied her, called gendarmes. She fled into a lavatory, jumped out of a window, but the gendarmes pursued her with bullets and she died in a ditch. The leopard hunter...
Deprivation. Deprive a child of dessert or some food of which he is very fond if he does not eat the rest of his meal. Be firm but not cross. If you decide to do a thing, do not change your mind, no matter how much the child teases. (Children soon discover that it is possible to make you change your mind...
...champing on false teeth, peering through eyeglasses, taking nightly physics and laxatives, Author Ludovici argues, with hysterical prolixity, the physical degeneracy of the race. He sees in operation the sinister influences of remedial Medicine and the "body-despising" ideals of Christians and Feminists. Says he: "There is no such thing today as a guilty conscience about bodily depravity. ... A clean mouth full of natural teeth, firmly set in unimpaired gums; a clean fresh tongue, not even slightly furred by incipient chronic indigestion; a sweet breath and the natural fragrance of a healthily functioning body?who knows love as Nature intended...
...rare thing to discover a genuine business leader who will convey to the public unpleasant truths about his particular industry. Mr. Insull has just as much faith in the public utility business as-say-Judge Gary undoubtedly has in the steel industry. But he realizes that there is such a thing as overoptimism, and he has courage enough to state so openly when occasion demands. Secretly, he must be amused to witness the reaction to his remarks of the numerous Pollyannas of U. S. business...