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...fevered eye of the midshipman no more damnable sight appears upon the horizon than the solid bank of frenzied, gesticulating, grey-coated maniacs that occupies the opposite stand. For an hour or two he hurls epithets at its maddening solidity across the field where on his shipmates struggle for transient glory. If success be their reward he plunges over the boxes, with little regard for the grey bearded dignity of his seniors who have drawn the ringside seats, to writhe across the field in a snake dance of victory, chanting appropriate verses of "The Armored Cruiser Squadron," until, massed before...
...Barbe Bleu fires the emotions of Frenchmen. Men marry women and kill them for their wealth in every land; but in France a Barbe Bleu is news. Last week was bluebeard week at Marseilles, the chief and most casually immoral port city of France, and a famed stockade for transient White Slavers...
...equally inherent studiousness precludes the possibility of a change, it would seem a very difficult matter to decide whether or no a moderate interest in things intellectual might not be developed into a genuine appreciation, or, on the other hand, a seemingly scholarly bent may be only transient. If Dr. Faunce's test could ever be satisfactorily applied it would certainly go a long way toward solving a problem, but it would seem, at first sight, to be more useful as a recapitulatory for a college graduate than as an index for an entrant. Where the latter could profit...
...renewing my subscription at present. As my address shows I am living at an hotel where the help are very careless with mail. I have failed to receive quite a number of copies of TIME and have gone to the office several times to get my mail and found transient guests, lounge lizards, and lobby loiterers reading my paper, which they had helped themselves to out of my box in the absence of the clerk. Newark must be a temporary stopping off place for the latter class of humans, resting presumably before touring the State of New Jersey, where "Graft...
...most opt mistie about the modern stage. "People often come and ask me to join some uplift society or other, but nothing is to be accomplished by these methods. The drama is going through a cycle, and will come through stronger than ever. The present phase is just transient...