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Further, she informed John Blymyer that the only way in which he could break the charm that made him sickly, that made his pigs die, that made sweat break out on his face in the dead of night, was to steal from Rehmeyer his book, The Long Lost Friend, or else get a lock of his hair and bury it eight feet underground. John Blymyer got two young fellows, John Curry and Wilbert Hess; Rehmeyer had hexed them too, he said. The three of them went down to Rehmeyer's farmhouse one night in the autumn to get the book...
...Volpone" is a long and beautifully bred sneer, tuned within an octave whose extremes are its own deft slapstick and the high cyniscism of "Caprice". Ben Jonson gave the Fox his being and his taste to trick the would be inheritors, who licked his hands for the delicious death sweat. Since then "Volpone" has been through the adaptation of Stefan Sweig and the translation of Ruth Langner. Even now, in the buzz of Mosca the Gadfly, the pandering servant who wins gold for Volpone to dirk him in the end with his own weapons of pen, ink and attested parchment...
...Governor Brewster-with such joyous phrases as "in the twinkling of an eye" and "like the house that Jack built"-the job reserve is to consist of some three billion dollars worth of public construction projects on paper. Getting the projects off paper, translating them at judicious moments into sweat-producing, belly-filling, back-covering jobs for labor, and into cash-registering orders for business will depend upon the extent to which federal, state and municipal legislative bodies and officers can be persuaded and helped to "cooperate" (Hoover's favorite word). Also, patience and discretion will be required...
...line that hinges on Verdun. "Such fortifications would, of course, be purely a defensive measure, but would be effective as nothing else could be in serving notice upon all that these United States are not an inviting object of buccaneering invasion. . . . Let us never forget the old proverb, 'Sweat saves blood...
...Durham, N. C., there was only one fire in the month of August. This was caused by one drop of sweat which fell from one H. Toohey, an employe in a hosiery mill, into a combination of cotton-bleaching chemicals, causing combustion...