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...Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest of the earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free...
...Jeritza's unviolated flaxen locks, accused unbobbed women of having "microbes." She knew all about James John ("Gene") Tunney's having whipped Jack Dempsey for the world's heavyweight boxing championship. "My boy won," she said. "He's an angel, and so good looking. . . . I wouldn't mind a bit being engaged to that great big, handsome, blond boy. I saw him in Miami last winter and gave him a gold medal of the Blessed Virgin, and they tell me he carried it with him in the fight...
With much difficulty the children were "rescued." The youngest soon died in captivity. The other was put in the Rev. Jal Singh's orphanage, where it took months to wean her even slightly from her savage ways. She fiercely tore off the clothes they sewed on her. She bit and clawed when they tried to bathe her. She put her mouth down into her dishes of food, not understanding the use of her hands save as weapons. In time she learned something of their use and acquired a few human words. Weak mentally, she neither laughed nor cried, preferring...
...here I made my coup, a typical bit of Forecast strategy. I just repeated, "Yes, that's so," and hung up the receiver. You can imagine just how thoroughly the wind was taken out of his sails. But I don't propose to rest on my last week's laurels, although I must modestly admit that there are enough to rest on. Most of the major Forecast errors of the past two years have been made in regard to Yale. There is something unpsychic, if that is what I mean, about the Elis. They always do what is least expected...
...turns. So I won't tell. I will only say that the Forecast shekels are being staked on said outcome in breath-taking amounts. It has always been hard, almost impossible, for me to find anyone with the temerity to wager against the infallible Forecast, but by a clever bit of strategy last week--you may have read the Saturday CRIMSON--I allowed credence to be given to the rumor that the Shemokin Idol is no longer infallible. :I have been accused of breaking faith with my public by purposely miscalling Saturday's results in one or two important cases...