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Fateful Footnote. At Columbia he studied furiously. Saturdays, before the library closed, he would take out a stack of books and tote them home; he knew he could not possibly read them all, but he wanted at least to look at them and read the table of contents. He took John Erskine's General Honors Course, the first "great books" course in the U.S. (it was never known by that name...
...Justice"), and to the Commissioners of the City of Buffalo ("Sirs"). ¶ How to brush off a begging letter to the boss ("I wish I could, but I can't. I have come to the sad conclusion that I am carrying all the Good Causes I can possibly tote around"). ¶How to keep flowers from wilting in the office ("Carnations and snapdragons do well at 45° at night...
...story has it that the people of Bessans began whittling devils in the 14th Century to commemorate a home-town boy named Duvallon, who sold his soul to Satan on a Christmas night. For 50 years thereafter, Duvallon was able to tote huge pine trees about on his shoulders and to float up & down the River Arc in a magic, unsinkable jacket. Satan at last came to collect, of course, suffused with devilish glee. Duvallon slipped his wife's wedding ring on his own finger for protection, jumped on his horse and galloped off to Rome. The Pope prescribed...
...Reds were reported to be suffering heavily from allied air attacks. Their famous "manback" supply system worked well enough for front-line distribution, but their human supply carriers could not tote their burdens all the way from the Manchurian border. For those hundreds of miles, the Communists used trains and road vehicles, which were vulnerable to air harassment. Air communiques reported attacks on six trains (one destroyed, four damaged); one day the allied air arms attacked road convoys totaling 425 vehicles...
...pleasant time, before such modern conveniences as electrified tote boards and raucous public address systems. If a racegoer had no special interest in placing a bet at the moment, he could wander down to the stable area along the Susquehanna, watch such thoroughbreds as Exterminator or Sir Barton grazing under the trees. After the races there was the leisurely ride home, or perhaps a turn at the roulette wheel or dice table in what was apt to be, in race season, a relaxed and hospitable town...