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...Hameln (not Hamlin) Germany, which, says legend, was plagued with rats in 1284. A strange piper in motley lured the beasts into the Weser where they drowned. Thinking him a sorcerer, the citizens refused him his pay, whereupon he piped the children of Hameln all away, "into a mountain." Possible basis of truth: the 13th Century Children's Crusade...
...determination to take advantage of every circumstance Fortune throws his way. Apprised of his father's approaching assassination, he assumes a "hands off" attitude, profits by another's crime. But, in the end, his "philosophy" is revealed to him as a mere ra- tionalization of the beastly Karamazov nature, whereupon his tower of reason topples into madness. With two love stories, these three threads are woven into an intricate stage pattern, directed by Jacques Copeau, who came to the U. S. for that special purpose, enacted by a cast including Alfred Lunt, Clare Eames, Lynn Fontanne, Dudley Digges, George Gaul...
...Fraternity."* 'He knows nothing of golf, calls it an old man's game. 3) He went into politics. First he ran for town clerk of Elwood, Ind. His opponents, finding that his schooling consisted of one year, said that he was too ignorant for the office. Whereupon, he began to carry a blackboard with him when he made speeches and asked any schoolteacher present to give him an examination. He was the only Republican elected in Elwood in that campaign. The only other public office he held before being appointed Secretary of Labor was county recorder...
Whimsically, he suggested an investigation by Congress. Whereupon, Secretary of Agriculture Jardine, hitherto unknown as a humorist, replied: "So far as I know the horses and the cows as well as the mules are surviving the ordeal, some of them even kicking up their heels and showing a great deal of spirit. As for the goats-I still have mine...
...were lost," related Mrs. Osborn, "in contemplation of that portrait, and after a few minutes' silence Professor Osborn said 'Sargent, you have captured a quattrocento mystic, a saint, a Saint Francis of Assisi.' Whereupon Sargent, in the ebullience of youth, literally jumped from the floor, saying, 'Osborn, do you see that in that face? That's what...