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...Dawn broke somewhat unpleasantly behind a cloudy sky of incontinent youth. Two young ladies found themselves abruptly young but no more ladies. One committed suicide on the fringes of a house party and the other lived and married the man she loved. A puritanical papa who objected most determinedly to these unfortunate adventures was argued down by his wife on the grounds that she, too, in the days of her youth had subdivided her virginity. She had made a good wife. Daughter would make a good wife...
...every child," echoed the crowd. But words, after all, are only words, even in Russia. The promise of universal education has turned out meaningless. There is no way to judge how extensive is the disillusion of which Forma Goldman is so signal an example. But the day may dawn when the great unwashed masses will rise to ask with slaister emphasis: "Are we really free...
...hills of Vermont. Reporters in automobiles rushing over country roads; a knock at the door of a white farmhouse in the little hamlet of Plymouth; oil lamps lit, dispelling the darkness; telegrams read by their glow; a brief statement of mourning; an oath of office taken at dawn and the next chapter is inaugurated...
...salvation, saw their sins stand horrible and naked before them. The evangelist leapt to the rostrum, proclaimed his text: "THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH." Finally, said he: "No person in whose heart reposes guilty knowledge need expect to make peace with God until full confession is first made." Dawn. In police headquarters, a night captain leaned drowsily over his desk. He felt chill dawn creep through an open door. A solitary woman came toward him. She was on the graveward side of 50, listless, tearstained, slummocky. When she began to speak, a little hysterical, the captain woke...
Prior to the dawn of this age Hercules held the world's record for infantile achievement. Since his day, however, standards are higher. His vulgar strangling act was but the rude and distant precursor of a Children's Crusade in all the arts...