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...events through another card of Hiltonshurley Moggs, thrown away by a thirsty rumdum to whom Mr. Moggs had given a pint of whiskey instead of a dole. It looked to Kendrick like a good little story. It became an epic. Ruth Pudley's bright-haired presence is even simpler to explain. She was "busted" out of Bryn Mawr for "deplorable contumacy of conduct." She was ready to divorce or annul, her clerical father, "the meanest man in the world." "He practises slurping his soup," she said, "so he can do it louder and louder. He dunks his toast...
...simpler words, anyone who attempts to controvert Dr. Julius Klein is presumably ignorant. Dr. Klein does not err about facts. He knows them, knows how to get them and, when found, to reduce them to figures, and knows how to interpret those figures to attentive businessmen. Secretary Hoover brought him from Buenos Aires, where he was U. S. commercial attache during 1919 and 1920, to be his technician, his Ariel. People who think that every Jew is a commercial genius and vice versa every commercial genius a Jew have long believed Dr. Julius Klein a Jew. He is a Republican...
Discussing "The Scope and Purpose of Legal Research," Dean Pound said: "In an age of expanding trade the operations of business could not be confined by the straight jacket of legal conceptions and legal institutions worked out for the simpler commercial conditions of Feudal England. Then it took an act of Parliament to bring courts to recognize an established instrument of commerce. Today a simple legislative act will seldom suffice. Also today the economic structure is so complex and so delicate that we cannot wait for things to work themselves out at a great cost in friction and waste...
Whether or not this Burmese fragment was written in 1894 or dates to an earlier, simpler time, Wilde enthusiasts may decide for themselves. It is very much in the manner of his first fairy tales (The Nightingale and the Rose, The Happy Prince, etc.) which he wrote in 1888, and has not the suggestive undercurrent of his later fairy tales (House of Pomegranates), which appeared in 1892 with the explicit statement that they were "intended neither for the British child nor the British public...
...fading into drifting leaves. Some of them, including the major piece, "Priapus and the Pool," suffer grievously from obscurity. In such the supreme function of poetry seems nearly lost- the function of making thoughts clearer than ever words were meant to make them. The more enjoyable poems are the simpler: the richly oriental "And in the Hanging Gardens"; the ironic "The Wedding" (of Arachne with her prey) ; The vampire in Woman, "Electra" and the brave "Teteléstai": I am no King, have laid no kingdoms waste, Taken no princes captive, led no triumphs Of weeping women through long watts...