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...discontented; it is another name for ambition. Be selfish; don't work for the professors. Be disobedient; do not believe everything you are told. Be lazy and fond of music, books, impracticable flowers and the birds that sing, though there be no ear to hear...
...pistol he handed her in her handbag, but instead she hid it in the sling?for romance, for Victor Hugo, immortal originator of gangster fiction. It seems right for her to wear the sling. It seems right that her father, Guy Kibbee, should be a genial, bald-headed Irishman, fond of rococo furniture, comic strips and a pet canary called Jackie. How much more fiendish?because more human?he seems when, going out for the evening's beer-running and murdering, he says mournfully: "Jackie ain't sung a tune...
...Fond and normal though he is as a grandfather, strange as the ways of the Kookaburra* are the financial maneuvers of Premier John Thomas Lang of New South Wales, eccentric Laborite. Weeks ago he proposed to fatten the flabby treasury of his province by issuing "turnip money," i.e. paper money secured not by gold, but by the natural wealth of the country, turnips, mutton, wheat, etc. (TIME, Feb. 23). Dissuaded from this he next proposed that Australia should insist that Great Britain give her as favorable terms of debt settlement as Great Britain had received from the U. S. Last...
German goods would enter Austria duty free, and vice versa; but exceptions would be made to protect such government monopolies as matches. Finally what the two smart Teutons "really want" is this: Dr. Curtius wants Zollverein as a prelude to Anschluss, the fond political dream of Germans; and Dr. Schober wants to break an opening in the "Chinese Wall" of tariffs which surrounds Austria today, strangling her industries and national life...
...still, said nothing. Colyumists Heywood Broun and Arthur Brisbane who might have been the two "sage critics" in question, joined in the embarrassing silence. Then Host Long called on jovial Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb to save the situation. Mr. Cobb told Visitor Pilnyak that those present were very fond of him and esteemed him very highly, since, "you see, we don't know enough about you yet to be jealous...