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...separation has nothing to do with any third person." Courtly to the last, her abandoned husband took pity on newsmen stamping their feet in the cold outside his Gracie Square home and invited them in for hot coffee, served, a grateful reporter noted, in cups of the finest English bone china...
...Pickett's young and able varsity wrestlers meet the University of Pennsylvania tomorrow afternoon at 2 p.m. in the Block bone for their first home meet of the season. Before Christmas the team rolled over Tufts and Williams in away matches...
...courage," Faulkner once said. "[He] has never crawled out on a limb. He has never been known to use a word that might cause the reader to check with a dictionary to see if it is properly used." Hemingway has indeed remained in the carefully delineated, cut-to-the-bone world of simple, palpable acts. But at his best, Hemingway has a sense of fate recalling Melville, an American heartiness recalling Mark Twain (who never used big dictionary words either). Hemingway can carve icebergs of prose; only a few words on paper convey much more beneath the surface. The taut...
...with a headful of half-digested Italian subjects and one driving idea: that the film of time could be incorporated in pictures. He handled it more convincingly in Maine than he had in Italy. "The rocks of Maine," Thon observes, "go back millions of years. There's a bone structure to the coast that comes through especially in the fall and winter. When the summer foliage is down, the rocks come up again...
After the attack, Remington crawled down a flight of steps, was found by a guard on the second-floor landing, dazed and bleeding. In the prison hospital he tried to speak, but the words would not come. Next day, a surgeon operated to remove chips of bone and relieve pressure on the brain from skull fractures. Sixteen hours later, Bill Remington died...