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...Testament-like baldness, power and monotony, continue ashamed until an octoroon of the fourth generation "passes over"-that is, becomes white enough to be ashamed of his shame. Ironically, pathetically, he goes, as his great-great-grandfather went before him, "to help people." Some call this book an unnecessary bore. Others call it almost indubitably a classic...
...existing features, with gradual changes only. The strongest steel alloys are used throughout. Many parts are made totally of duralumin. The valve mechanism of the overhead type is driven by a cam system and placed in a housing of the lightest possible construction. The cylinders are of larger bore and shorter stroke than the old Liberty motors so that the height of the motor is diminished. The exhaust valves working in the terrific heat of the outgoing gases are cooled by a column of oil forced under pressure through the stems and heads of the valves with greater reliability...
...produced a great slate, 18 inches high and over two feet long. The children examined it; it was quite unwritten on. Carefully the medium wrapped it in a cloth. Teddy and Cornelius were made to hold it. Again the medium implored the spirits. The slate was unwrapped. It bore two portraits? one of the President, the other of Uncle Quentin, killed in France. Under the President's picture was an inscription saying that if he should ever come back, it would be through the medium of Houdini. Below was signed in unmistakable hand: "Your devoted Theodore" and "In haste, your...
...Book. In 1795, the daughter of a man who ran a livery stable at the sign of the Swan and Hoop, Finsbury Pavement, Moorfields, married one Thomas Keats, her father's trusted head hostler and, a year later, bore him a son, John. This boy went to school till he was 17, was then bound apprentice to a surgeon, read Wordsworth, Byron, Spenser, looked into Chapman's Homer, wrote some stumbling poetry, made friends with Editor Leigh Hunt, Painter Haydon, Etcher Joseph Severn, Publish- er's Reader Woodhouse. Although lie was only five feet high, the beauty of his countenance...
...well known how the sailors, after a long struggle, regretfully abandoned Jonah to the rugged mercies of his God; and how Leviathan, by prearrangement, rose from the sea-bottom and bore the gurgitated prophet in his belly to Nineveh. There Jonah prophesied : "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown." The city repented like a child of its sins; even the King went and sat down in some ashes. When the forty days were spent, it was found that God had spared Nineveh...