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...word sounds, the catchy rhythm, the absurd, jolly or pathetic pictures evoked-all have their place and appeal. The rhymes are not "criminal," I am convinced by observation as well as by my own memory. Even to the tragic death of cock robin, which has caused many a weep in many nurseries...
...weep no more my lady" over "the unquestionably evil influence exerted by popular nursery jingles" upon infant minds. But rather join in that nocturnal and nationally criminal chorus of wicked mothers, who love to sing when "quiet hour" comes, that "Old King Cole was a merry ol' soul," with all its accompanying nonsense, even though we know it to be lovely...
...peering round-eyed, in sadistic ecstasy, while an instructor surgeon, cowled and gloved, removed and lectured upon the guts of a tortured dog. This gruesome spectacle, set forth in all its horrid details in the pages of the more mawkish journals, has induced many a kind-hearted madame to weep into her breakfast dish of tea, has spurred many a feeling gentleman to dash off a letter of protest to an editor. Quite rightly. For however luridly exaggerated by popular imagination, the fact that it is occasionally necessary to cause suffering in one animal in order to save many...
...Alsace. They were French and French they remained throughout the German occupation. They also saw to it that the girls they taught were inculcated with French culture. It was due to their 47 years of ceaseless devotion to their country that a group of little girls caused France to weep by singing the Marseillaise as the first French soldiers into Strasbourg...
...longed to pummel the thick headed Shand. But she knew, she knew what every woman knows. Sentimental drivel? Nonsense. We expect to weep openly and copiously whenever we please. As one of her brothers puts it: "It's that damned charm that does...