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...Masefield admitted: "My husband has been approached on the subject, and the quotation in his opinion is the work of a modern poet writing in Biblical style. From the style he thought it might possibly be written by G. K. Chesterton. He went to considerable trouble to try to trace the words, but without success." Sir Edward Denison Ross, the eminent British expert on Oriental literature, guessed that the words must come from an unpublished work, because "they are so good" that if they had been published the author would certainly be known...
...Ogden family liked farming, or had any aptitude for it; in nearly 20 years of grim hard work they wound up with no more than they started with. It was "a round of servitude to beasts." It stripped parents not naturally unkind of every trace of tenderness. Every human effort to escape into a better world was suspect and contemptible. So far as George was concerned, life was virtually nothing but work, harder, always, than his body was yet capable of. He suffered also under a strong, sadistic elder brother, Harvey. Among other misfortunes he: fell into a well...
...destroyed the old building, which they would have had to tear down, left them richer by $277,671 in insurance. To lay out the new buildings Architects Gordon Kaufman and Paul Williams were hired, turned out an imposing, 69-room hunk of hotel (late Californian with a Southern Georgian trace), plunked on a handsome mountainside. To dress it up inside, Decorator Dorothy Draper was brought from Manhattan. She did it complete with drapes of chintz and tweed, turned out uniforms for the help, wound up with small items, toothpicks and swizzlesticks in black...
Frequently in these cataclysmic collisions penetrating radiations of various types are emitted. These radiations may be used in medical and biological research, while the newly formed radioactive atoms may serve as labels to trace biological or chemical processes within plants or animals without disturbing the normal conditions of behavior...
...common sense of disillusionment; to his companions it still seems better to die for an ideal than live without one. Afterwards, though still believing he was right, King is burdened with a sense of guilt. The play does not, however (after the fashion of Conrad's Lord Jim), trace out the psychological consequences of King's desertion; instead, it brings him into a world of gangsters where he is once again compelled to choose between common sense and heroic sacrifice...