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...away with Fah-li, another temple boy. In the first town they come to they hear a revolutionary orator recruiting volunteers. Ko-sen is much impressed by the new ideas of liberation from traditional religion, from foreign influence. Fah-li takes all this oratory with a grain of salt, but his love for Ko-sen leads him to volunteer along with...
...President Kent there is a great deal of the actor, also a genuineness sprung from the days when he was an engineer in Wyoming. Usually wearing a pepper & salt suit, he is full of tricks and stories. Salesmen under him marvel at his eloquence, his exciting vocabulary. Fox's bankers planned to watch him for several months before making him president but his air and accomplishments won them over in one-third of that time...
Dealing as it must with everything from the rise of the pants business to the fall of women's skirts in the United States, History 55 is the salt and pepper course in American History. Earlier courses in the field emphasize the economic and political sides of the edifice. This course sets a lean-to side on the building by attempting to present the social and intellectual development of America...
Hardly 13, Arthur Fearon, a puny, whimpering, pinch-faced Liverpool schoolboy, is brutally forced to work by a drunken father. His first job, bailing bilge water out of a filthy ship and chipping salt from the boilers, so sickens him that he crawls on to a tramp steamer, escapes as a stowaway. His life on the freighter is grim with the obscenities of shipmates from cook to bo's'n. Here is not the sea of Conrad, romantic with austerities, but a sea which has beaten its devotees into a coarse ritual. "What kind of world was it into which...
...animals had been subject to privation for at least 29 days. Three died or were killed on the voyage. They were tied with their backs to the sea, and their hind quarters were covered with salt from the sea waves. Many of them were not shod. Most of them were lame, a few suffered from partial paralysis, several had been severely kicked and bitten, and two were little more than skeletons. Some of the horses were badly injured while being swung ashore, but they were beaten and prodded violently with sticks. We watched one man strike a horse 35 times...