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...more than the conventional time. Mr. Furlong attributed his success to a study of "bull-riding psychology" by which he was able to fool himself into thinking his "joints weren't really coming apart, but only felt that way", and so to "concentrate on his finger ends and hang...
...fault was not that of the usher. He had reported to the marshal as soon as the doors were opened, had been immediately assigned to an aisle in the first gallery, and almost before he could hang us his coat had been swamped by a rush of spectators. Then he discovered that the seats were numbered as no seats ever were numbered before. A lightning calculation could not have figured out the location of any one seat; a search was necessary--like that for the needle in a haystack. For example--in the first gallery the seats in sections...
...realized and rendered with short, firm staccato pencil strokes. All the training of the professional architect is behind him, and that implies a solidity of handling unknown to the disintegrated impressionist schools. (Nothing could be more different, for instance, than three etchings of Venetian Palazzi by Whistler, which hang on one of the other walls of the room.) One notes too a technical advance over the Spanish drawings, a greater range of values, in particular a greater use of black...
...true, do you suppose, that the college hero holds his place because he is six foot two, has curly blond hair and blue eyes and talks baby-talk to flappers? Is it true that the ambition of every student is to get thoroughly plastered, hang around Mory's and Poll's and swank up and son Chapel street? Is it true that books are held in deep disdain, that "Heeling" the new and other institutions with hope of one day hearing the delirium-producing words. "Go to your room!" shouted at one is the great goal...
...overflowing with the joy of living. The author went to Tahitit to play--not to make scientific investigations or profound deducts on the benefits and evils of our civilization. He cannot help noting the terrible havoc which has been wrought through all Ocean, but he does not let this hang too heavily upon...