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"If capital punishment really prevented a crime we should execute our murderers in the public square, on high hills or on top of our skyscrapers. Everybody should be required to attend. The schools and factories and business houses should be let out, just as they are on a holiday. The...
* Lewis Carroll, famed for "Jabberwocky," called them "portmanteau" words, two or more meanings or images being packed in together. In the illustration, "delicious-excruciatingly-flippant-quips" becomes two easily pronounceable new words.
The delicious menace of that word has been long savored by people who have yielded to the importunity of a megaphoning bus-starter and have ridden THROUGH CHINATOWN FOR $1. On such rides they beheld Orientals going and coming in the streets, with the short scuffling step and the furtive...
The dreamer goes home startled, curious, full of vague notions and curiosity, a prey to delicious contemplation of the "sublimations" from "suppressed desires" her (his) friend has hinted, more or less darkly, more or less ignorantly. Practising "doctors of psychoanalysis" are not now uncommon in the world, charlatans of the...
At Glencoe, Ill. William T. Tilden II, lean-faced histrion, dearly loves to make a great gallery prickle with the delicious belief that it is about to see the defeat of a champion, dearly loves to astound that gallery with a crashing, irresistible rally.