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...queenship, but will not risk his heart. A Roman eagle Caesar is, but like the eagle, bald, and wearing a laurel wreath as a toupee. He is in any case beyond wearing laurel wreaths for show; he knows too well that the only true conqueror is the conqueror worm. Caesar is that type that always fascinated Shaw, the successful man of action. And Shaw molded Caesar nearer to his mind's desire: made him notable not for warmth but for lack of heat, not for humanity but for hate of inhumanity...
...nearly 30 years the little mummy lay in the museum on a bed of naphthalene crystals in a cheap, brown-stained wooden box. Its rusted cloth wrappings were worm-eaten and frayed with age. The exposed face and head were blackened by the embalming process. Because the name was translated as Diana, Vancouver's schoolchildren were led to believe that their favorite exhibition was once a young girl...
Macrae listed some overall impressions. "Main joy from America: overwhelming hospitality, and the feeling of being a customer instead of a worm when looking round your well-stocked shops. Main disappointment: Broadway. Main surprise: the way veterans of the war are being called back to the colors. This is certainly a fact that should be plugged by your information services over in Europe, where news of this sort of step would silence the anti-Americans much more effectively than figures about dollar expenditures on arms...
...Office where Miss Ann McKenna tries to find students to fill the positions. Students registered in the casual job division--about 350--come in between classes to see what sort of jobs are in the offing. So for as casual jobs are concerned, the early bird usually catches the worm...
...larger ones by squids, and all of these by whales. To survive, sea creatures assume remarkable disguises: the Sargasso Sea slug has a soft, shapeless body, exactly like the vegetation in which it lives; another fish mimics weeds even to the point of having white dots which look like worm spots...