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Thenceforward, the Holmes house reverted to staidness. The Justice was born elsewhere, coming only in his College days to visit his grandmother and uncle, of whom Emerson said something to the effect that 'John Holmes has humor, while Oliver has only wit.' Boston's poet laureate returned in 1871, literally at least, to poke around the garret and compare it to "a seashore, where wrecks are thrown up and slowly go to pieces...
...them sit on chairs for a while but not a very long while because it turned out the chairs were all wired to be hot seats. Then Dr. Jekyll asked one of the kids to come up. "What's your name?" the doctor asked genially. "David." A wit in the audience kept shouting "David Crockett" while Dr. Jekyll made the boy itch, genially explaining, "It all comes from what we call nerve control." Suddenly Dr. Jekyll's assistant sprinted out on stage chasing something. Then the lights went out and all the kids figured it must be the time they...
...they could ill afford. Their minimum paychecks, they pointed out, were already a good $3 under the national average ($26.46). "We are sunk so low," protested one Scotsman, "that our sacred profession . . . has become the subject of cheap political jokes and material for the cartoonist's wit...
...keeps his ashes in a gimcrack vase in their shanty parlor, and has long, sweaty daydreams about his body ("like a young bull"). "I was the peasant," she cries, "but I gave my hosband glory." One day reality in the improbable form of Alvaro Mangiacavallo (Burt Lancaster), "a bachelor wit' three dependents," breaks into Serafina's dank little dreamworld. Like the smuggler, he drives a truck, and has a rose tattooed on his brawny chest, which reminds Serafina almost unbearably of her husband's. Hard facts as well as a new set of hard muscles break...
...zone defense, and started to dribble the ball at mid-court. He exchanged quick passes with Bob Hastings at 2:45 and 4:30, dribbling in the meantime, and then held the ball in his hands for the next five and a half minutes. Intermittent hocking, mostly from a wit on the Middlebury bench, did not disturb him, and he only passed off after Middlebury shifted...