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This is the fourth book* that gives the customers reason to stare hard at Wallace Stevens, famed poetical solipsist who wears the world in his hat. For many years this startling person has spent his normal working hours disguised as a lawyer-employe of Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co., of which he is vice president. Betweenwhiles Stevens, now aged 63, has kept adding to the bulk and scope of his poetical testament...
Frank Murphy focused his blue eyes in a bright second-balcony stare, and gripped the dog-eared Bible given him by his mother, the Bible on which he has taken all oaths of office, including those of Mayor of Detroit, High Commissioner to the Philippines, Governor of Michigan, U.S. Attorney General, Supreme Court Justice. The Justice was about to take another kind of oath. He had decided to go to the wars, as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. "I have," he murmured dramatically, "a date in Manila...
Upon all holders of B and X cards OPA turned an icy stare, ordered their names made public, promised an investigation of their applications, reminded them that they were liable to $10,000 fine and ten years in jail if they had represented their status falsely. They might even lose their cards. Suddenly remorseful, many a citizen hastened to return his high-rating card. In Nassau County, N.Y., citizens who thought it over coughed up 500 X cards. Motorcycle patrolmen stopped drivers, examined their cards. X and B card holders had to explain where they were going and why. Holders...
...stammered, a look of horrified amazement wringing his face. He lunged for the paper, oblivious of the soup in his path and the wrath of its owner who could imagine even more pleasant things that delicious minestrone in his lap. But the gushing curses faded into an incredulous stare. The Vagabond was breathing heavily--"inhale, exhale." "It's unfair," he murmured, the paper already a twisted shred. "It's inhuman," he howled, glaring with bloodshot eyes at his awestruck companion...
...boots" (apprentice seamen), Bayview should be a dream base. After the working day, mountain sailors can stare at the view, take a swim, catch a fish, climb a mountain, climb a tree-or date a Western girl...