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...days later, the bishop rowed to the island. "It's hard to keep things straight," said the old ladies. "We pump all day, and the leaves still lie on the ground." "You need a man," said the bishop, "a [French] prisoner to come and work." "Herr Bishop!" screeched the old ladies, "a Frenchman-with a young girl on the island?" But a few days later young Paul Laprade arrived. "Permit me, Madame," he said, bowing to each surprised old lady and gently helping her onto the seesaw. "Love is stronger than death, and that is what will save...
...bright enough idea, Barry's fantasy winds up seeming more like just a foolish notion. For all the Elizabeth Ardenish chic with which he has surrounded his Enoch Ardenish story, Barry cannot pump any real life or lightness into it. The visions make neither good sense nor good nonsense; the ending of the play is lame; the dialogue is sometimes bright but often flashy, and riddled with literary puns ("I have been faithful to thee, Cynara. after my Old Fashioneds"). For its best moments Foolish Notion can thank deep-throated Actress Bankhead-a tiger in her wrath and also...
...long-term credit bigger than the U.S. budget was in any peacetime year before 1935, a loan in which the U.S. would risk a bigger sum to expand foreign trade with a single country than the New Deal ever put out in one year to prime the pump at home...
...hours behind schedule, the train chuffed out. Soon the second engine developed mechanical trouble. Water in the boiler ran low. The engineer suggested that there was a water pump at Malines, 13 miles away. He knew, but the Germans did not, that the Malines pump was out of order...
...Lorand Julius Bela Gluzek has rigged up an efficient little machine called a dolorimeter, which measures pain in grams. It would have made the Marquis de Sade very happy. Just put the victim's leg on the leg rest, put the pressure inductor on his shin bone and pump up the pressure until it hurts. That indicates the threshold at which pain begins (and the victim-however Spartan-is supposed to yell). The threshold varies from 500 (for the Gummidge type) to 2,700 grams, depending on the person's nervous system...