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...Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia, Navy, and Pennsylvania. The rules of the league--and they are adhered to throughout the East--provide for nine different events. These are the 220, 50, 100, 440, and 400-yard relay free-style races (free-style always turns out to be an overarm crawl), a 150-yard backstroke, race, a 200 yard breastroke race, a 300-yard medley relay comprising three 100's of backstroke, breastroke, and free-style respectively, and the dive...
...believe Jesus divine]. As a Jew, I unqualifiedly condemn Rabbi Witt for this affront. . . . The truly devout Christian of whatever denomination has far more respect for the Jew who, conscientious to his own religious loyalties, does not observe Christmas, than for the Witt type of Jew who tries to crawl into Christmas observance, salving what remains of his Jewish conscience by endeavoring to water down and compromise sound Christian doctrine. . . What do these Christmas-observing Jews really want with Christmas? Witt and other Jews suffering spiritual hernia rationalize about 'good will.' The real reason is their inability...
...until exhausted," which meant until starved as well, since Kaufman cares nothing for food. They would spend two hours shaping one short sentence, a whole day discussing an exit. Kaufman's working habits are notorious. "In the throes of composition," Collaborator Alexander Woollcott once said, "he seems to crawl up the walls of the apartment in the manner of the late Count Dracula...
...Hicks, for one, refused to live in this neat and fanciful little fabrication. While the points of his disagreement are not yet fully known, this much is clear. He refused to crawl before the "bear that walks like a snake" simply because Party rules bade him do so. He refused to prostitute his intellect to Party discipline when every ounce of reason cried otherwise...
...German railroad travel slowed to a crawl as the War Ministry requisitioned trains...