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...bargains and haggles, remembering that the God of the Old Testament set the example of higgling with Abraham. The commercial efficiency of the European is lowered by the fact that his New Testament religion idealizes Christ, Who countenanced the very practical art of higgling so little that He drove the money-changers out of the Temple...
...date now. As an observer of contemporary customs nd scenery he is ageless. No Californian will read his description of an earthquake on the Kentucky barrens without a shudder of recognition. No rifleman but will be excited by his careful account of how Kentuckians, for practice, drove nails and snuffed candles with their bullets; how Daniel Boone "barked" squirrels, hitting the limb under their chins to stun, not mash them. Florida land-boomers may read how Mr. Audubon struggled through primeval subdivisions in a hurricane. The odd naturalist, "Monsieur de T.," slaying bats in his bedroom with Audubon...
Athenian motorbus chauffeurs adjusted their motors to back-fire last week, then drove for several hours around and around the Houses of Parliament, creating a potent, earsplitting, staccato...
...probably drove romanticism as far as it would go was Leo Tolstoy. For him little seems to have existed except the emotions Education, aristocracy of social position or of intellect had little value in his eyes. Him self a well educated man, he refused to consider Shakespeare among the great men of letters because his plays failed to make an immediate appeal to a Russian peasant audience...
With the period ten minutes old, Chase drove the puck past the Laval defense men and Labrie for the Crimson's final score...