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...Story.* A blocky little figure whose slightly protruding eyes and lower lip are redeemed from plainness by an ample brow and roguish smile, born in 1706, becomes sentient about 1718. He is the young- est of a Massachusetts chandler's 17 children; cheerful, robust, precocious. He dares let himself be towed across a pond by his kite. He reads Locke, Defoe and the Spectator?authors of the Age .of Reason ?besides Pilgrim's Progress and Plutarch. His publisher-brother is jailed for sensational articles in the New England Courant. Aged 17, the apprentice printer and anonymous author...
These salty and robust classics are in the translations of Sir Roger 1'Estrange, John Stevens and others...
...from what they should be both in food and the price of food. Furthermore, it can suggest that somewhere near the Yard pleasant rooms, fed from some central kitchen could serve meals planned by capable dieticians, perhaps of the feminine gender, for modern man has a certain robust fear of dietetics, meals which could be eaten in comparative quiet among friends--then there would be fewer haggard undergraduates, and there would be less truth in the myth that a graduate student is a rare, rare bird. It is high time that the cafeteria tray be taken from the shelf...
Thus faced with a well-nigh desperate situation, Belgian royalty bethought itself of royal nieces. There was, for example, Princess Astrid, 20, robust daughter of Prince Carl, Duke of Vastergotland, a younger brother of scrawny King Gustaf V of Sweden. Recently it was decided that she would do very nicely...
Though his Royal Highness spends much time in his hothouses and amid his beehives and poultry runs, he retains a robust interest in sport. Before leaving Brussels for Stockholm he issued instructions that detailed news of the Dempsey-Tunney fight be cabled to him. Interviewed by newsgatherers, he said: "I watched Tunney throughout the American Army boxing championship matches in 1919 [from General Pershing...