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...curious willingness of the House of McBride to continue publishing them. With some wonder he remarks that his books have rarely failed to evoke passionately unfavorable criticism, unadulterated by the least rationality, from all the better-thought-of reviewers. Of these and other bookish matters he speaks with wit and charm...
...Brussels last week died Nurse Ada Doherty, an assistant of Nurse Cavell in man-smuggling. She, too, was to have been shot but with Irish wit feigned insanity so cleverly that the Germans kept her in prison until after the War. She married a Belgian named Bodart, and in 1927 wrote to a London paper: "Some time after I had been repatriated to Brussels and was busy with my washing, I was told I was wanted at the French Embassy. I went just as I was, with a bundle of washing under my arm. When I arrived I found General...
...have to drink water," cried a wit in the audience. "Take a nip out of that bottle Senter's got in his pocket." President Senter rose, slapped his pockets to demonstrate that no bottles were on his person...
...Lord! How beautiful they be, Nothing in nature is unbeautiful even unto to the flake. See here a form of a star-which comes from a low cloud, I am told;-see here a tabular form-from high cloud;-see here little gems which man with all his wit could never make as beautiful. I am glad at my heart this day to enter into what Job hath well called "the treasure of the snow...
...Century. Which is to say it amounted to nothing. She looked at the world and explained it in terms of the pet theories of a few fashionable authors. For instance, she sincerely believed that every man had been in love with his mother when he was a child." His wit has plenty of vinegar: "It is a great mistake to place unlimited confidence in the malice of man. They seldom do us all the harm they might...