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...kled at the hysteric rob- ins as he would have chuckled at kittens or at a comic movie. He was, to the eye, the perfect office-going ex- ecutive—a wel... ...lin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twentieth t... ...ompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, efficient, up-to-the... ...uch amused by the antiquated provincialism as any proper Englishman by any American. He knew himself to be of a breeding altogether more esthetic and ... ...t, really, they weren’t at all nice.” Babbitt looked up irritably from the comic strips in the Evening Advocate. They composed his favorite literature... ...lly, they weren’t at all nice.” Babbitt looked up irritably from the comic strips in the Evening Advocate. They composed his favorite literature and a... ...ights standards. The gray walls were divided into artificial pan- eling by strips of white-enameled pine. From the Bab- bitts’ former house had come t... ...s anything like our number of phonographs, with not only dance records and comic but also the best operas, such as Verdi, rendered by the world’s high... ...tless. He vaguely wanted something more diverting than the newspaper comic strips to read. He ambled up to Verona’s room, sat on her maid- enly blue a...

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...ume picked up outside a second-hand book-shop. It was the life story of an American sea- man written by himself with the assistance of a jour- nalist.... ...os—the “beautiful Antonia.” Whether she is a possible varia- tion of Latin-American girlhood I wouldn’t dare to affirm. But, for me, she is. Always a ... ...earch. The story goes also that within men’s memory two wandering sailors— Americanos, perhaps, but gringos of some sort for certain—talked over a gam... ...ntero is going to speak,” he whis- pered, and almost immediately added, in comic alarm, “Heavens! he’s going to propose my own health, I believe.” Gen... ...l silent. “What, only one?” remarked Nostromo, looking down with a sort of comic inquisitiveness at the un- conscious old man. “No matter,” he added, ... ...ench associ- ates: “Imagine an atmosphere of opera-bouffe in which all the comic business of stage statesmen, brig- ands, etc., etc., all their farcic... ...s. One was sitting on the top step tear- ing a piece of linen hastily into strips—the young wife of an elderly man of fortune here. She inter- rupted ... ...de of lean dark youths, marked by all the hardships of campaign- ing, with strips of raw beef twined round the crowns of their hats, and huge iron spu...

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...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ...t I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in N... ...thers nod- ded, solemnly and in tune, like a shop-window of flexible toys, comic mandarins and judges and ducks and clowns, set quivering by a breeze ... ...ned chair-arms, the patent rocker covered with sleazy cretonne, the pasted strips of paper mending the birch- bark napkin-rings labeled “Papa “ and “M... ...r if I can explain what I mean? It’s the difference between looking at the comic page and looking at Manet. I want fun out of this, of course. Only— I... ...gs upon lawns, gold bricks, checkers, jars of gilded cat-tails, and shrewd comic old men who are known as “hicks” and who ejaculate “Waal I swan.” Thi...

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...perceptions and imaginative avenues, her rapid summaries, her sense of the comic, demanded this aerial freedom. We have it from Perry Wilkinson that t... ... island of chills and fogs, coelum crebris imbribus ac nebulis foedum, the comic and other percep- tions are dependent on the stirring of the gastric ... ...mps below. They kick it for pastime; they are intelligences perverted. The comic of it, the adventurous, the tragic, they make devilish, to kindle the... ...ning for support upon a beech-tree’s huge intertwisted serpent roots, amid strips of brown bracken and pendant weeds, while he exhibited one short stu... ...e worked for my bread. I had thoughts of America. I fancy I can write; and Americans, one hears, are gentle to women.’ ‘Ah, Tony! there’s the looking ... ...o strong is it that I can read pages I have written, and tear the stuff to strips (I did yesterday), and resume, as if nothing had hap- pened. The wav... ... inducement she had received to embark her money in this Company: a South- American mine, collapsed almost within hearing of the trum- pets of prospec... ...d the price of her misery bruised her heavily. ‘Read it and tear it all to strips,’ she said in an abhorrence to Emma, who rejoined: ‘Shall I go at on...

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... talking of Eugenics and the “family”—Benham was almost knocked down by an American trotter driven by Lord Breeze. “Whup there!” said Lord Breeze in a... ...uestrian… .” That night some malignant spirit kept Benham awake, and great American trotters with vast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncon... ...ast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncontrollable, hard-mouthed American trot- ters, pounded over his angry soul. “Prothero,” he said in ha... ...like a vulture. It will have teeth like the English spin- ster in a French comic paper… . And we will fly….” “I shall enjoy it very much,” said Prothe... ...arefully exhibited. For example, the sheet had been torn into half a dozen strips and they were lying side by side on the bed. The clock on the mantel...

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...nce of smoking during these twilight prowls with the threepenny packets of American cigarettes then just ap- pearing in the world. My life centred upo... ... of the newspapers, to casual po- litical speeches, to the cartoons of the comic papers or a chance reading of some Socialist pamphlet for any general... ...ng is a necessary function in a nation. The Romans broke up upon that. The Americans fade out amidst their successes. Eugenics—” “That wasn’t Eugenics... ... rotating bookcase containing an excellent col- lection of the English and American humorists from Three Men in a Boat to the penultimate Mark T wain.... ...part from miscellaneous popular novels, some veterinary works, a number of comic books, old bound volumes of The Illus- trated London News and a large... ...roduct of the system that heaped my cousins with trinkets and provided the comic novels and the abundant cigars and spacious bil- liard-room of my unc... ...s- chief comes in. Passion can always contrive to clothe itself in beauty, strips itself splendid. That carried us. But for all its mean associations ...

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... reply. What was there for a bishop to object to? There was that admirable American widow, Lady Sunderbund. She was enor- mously rich, she was enthusi... ... little, he was funny. His prevarications with his wife, for example, were comic. There was no other word for him but “funny.” He rolled back again an... ...The English were indolent, the French decadent, the Russians barbaric, the Americans basely democratic; the rest of the world was the “White man’s Bur... ...ut now think what it means,” he said. “I must leave the church.” “As a man strips off his coat for a fight.” “That doesn’t dismay you?” She shook her ...

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... was very much in my mind, and it had occurred to me that as a sentimental comic character he might serve a useful purpose in the development of my pl... ...merged from the haze of abstruse phrases in which Cavor expressed himself. Comic relief in a play in- deed! It was some time before I would believe th... ... The First Men in the Moon emption. I recalled the old Spanish monopoly in American gold. It wasn’t as though it was just this planet or that—it was a... ...f a whaler might cut up a moored whale. They were cutting off the flesh in strips, and on some of the farther trunks the white ribs were showing. It w... ...at began the century, arising out an announcement by Mr. Nikola Tesla, the American electrical celebrity, that he had received a message from Mars. Hi...

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...ouda. Nevertheless there is something great in the moment when a man first strips himself of adventitious wrappages; and sees indeed that he is naked,... ...as articulately perhaps as the case admitted. Or call him, if you will, an American Backwoodsman, who had to fell unpenetrated forests, and battle wit... ...onsiderably involved in haze. To the first English Edition, 1838, which an American, or two American had now opened the way for, there was slightingly... ... pacificated. ’ Here is a” ...— Sun Newspaper, 1st April, 1834. III. NORTH—AMERICAN REVIEWER. ... “After a careful survey of the whole ground, our bel... ...there is a good deal of remark throughout the work in a half-serious, half-comic style upon dress, it seems to be in reality a treatise upon the great...

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...tion to (I) the production, (2) the distribution, (3) the consump- tion of American wheat. When complete, they will form the story of a crop of wheat ... ... wear them after all. My poor little flowers.” But she showed him a single American Beauty, pinned to the shoulder of her gown beneath her cape. “Yes,... ...n his studio and regularly kow-tow to it, and talk about the ‘decadence of American industrial arts.’ I’ve heard him. I say it’s pure affectation, tha... ...had prevailed upon her and Page to accom- pany him to the matinee to see a comic opera. He had pronounced it “bully,” unable to see that Laura evinced... ...erciless sense of pacifica- tion, Laura deliberately reduced the letter to strips, burned it upon the hearth, and went back to her Ruskin. A little la...

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...ibited by his attack on the Press in the columns of the Press. It wore the comical face to the friends deploring it, which belongs to things we do tha... ...nd her hearer, and the more she was brief, oblique, far-shooting, the more comically intelligible she was to her niece. She bent her head to signify t... ...frowzy, scrubby pamphleteers and publishers, Lord Ormont thought amazingly comical. English nobles heading the weavers, cob- blers, and barbers of Eng... ...he work, doesn’t dispirit. Otherwise, one may say that an African or South American traveller has a more exciting time. I shall manage to keep my head... ...y him.’ ‘I’ll explain,’ said Lady Charlotte. ‘He shall not miss you. If he strips the parson and comes as a man and a servant of the poor, he has noth... ...is boys: English, French, Germans, Italians, a Spaniard in my time—a South American I have sent him— two from Boston, Massachusetts—and clever!—all em...

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...erned with. I had from far back mentally projected a certain sort of young American as more the “heir of all the ages” than any other young person wha... ...eft. The difficulty was not less that he breathed in the same way upon the comic: she almost believed that with this latter she might still have found... ...panish dancer, understood to be at that moment the delight of the town, an American reciter, the joy of a kindred people, an Hungarian fiddler, the wo... ... in short, that now troubled her—though certainly, as Europe was the great American sedative, the failure was to some extent to be noted: it was the s... ...appear to cover the page. She still had reserves of spontaneity, if not of comicality; so that all this cash in hand could now find employment. She be... ...ppeared, was most in his element at the piano; so that they had coffee and comic songs upstairs—the gentlemen, tempo- rarily relinquished, submitting ... ...se, he made out on the green shutters of his old, of his young windows the strips of white pasted paper that figure in Venice as an invitation to tena...

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...reduced prices are kept on sale by nomadic gentlemen in smeary hats too tall for them, whom one occasionally seems to have seen on race- courses, not ... ...ho, I am happy to state, were put into excellent spirits by my arrival. Having nothing to look at but the mud and the closed doors, they looked at me,... ...red pictures varnished an inch deep, and some stuffed creatures in cases; dotted among the audience, in Sung and out of Snug, the ‘Professionals;’ amo... ...g come but the jug of ale and the bread, you implore your waiter to ‘see after that cutlet, waiter; pray do!’ He cannot go at once, for he is carrying... ...e, but whence or how was a blank mystery. This time, I was forced into the same dread place, to see a large dark man whose disfigure- ment by water wa... ...as already in the un- commercial line. This was a man who, though not more than thirty, had seen the world in divers irreconcilable capacities—had bee... ... at every violent roll, becomes the regular blast of a high pressure en- gine, and I recognise the exceedingly explosive steamer in which I ascended t... ...is boat, the man (aged about thirty) plies his task. The machine would make a regulation oar while the man wipes his forehead. The man might be buried... ... houses stood open. I took the first entry , and knocked at a parlour-door. Might I come in? I might, if I plased, sur. The woman of the room (Irish) ...

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...la?’ He shows me the paper. It is an old scrap of print, the picture of an American patent door-spring, with directions: ‘Fasten the spring either end... ...ten the spring either end up. Wind it up. Never unwind.’ It is laconic and American. The signore watches me anx- iously, waiting, holding his chin. He... ...hut in in this 44 D. H. Lawrence enormous box. It is true, there are long strips of window and slots of space, so that the front is striped, and an o... ...all like Enrico Persevalli, because he is a very clever man: but that the ‘Comic’, Il Brillante, Francesco, is unsatisfied. In three performances in E... ...and thin and somewhat German-looking, wearing 99 Twilight in Italy shabby American clothes and a very high double collar and a small American crush h...

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.... MONDAY , 31ST? NOVEMBER. Near a week elapsed, and no journal. On Monday after- noon, Moors rode up and I rode down with him, dined, and went over in... ... up and I rode down with him, dined, and went over in the evening to the American Consulate; present, Consul-General Sewall, Lieut. Parker and Mrs. ... ...as all forenoon in the Mission House, lunched at the German Consulate, went on board the Sperber (German war ship) in the afternoon, called on my lawy... ...h flows here in a deep valley, and was unusually full, so that the horses trembled in the ford. The whole bottom of the valley is full of various stre... ...n) of V ailima; he was also, in his character I suppose of overseer, compared to a po- 138 Robert Louis Stevenson liceman—Belle had that day been the... ...n, beginning with Simele, every one came up to the table, laid his hand on the Bible, and repeated clause by clause after me the following oath— I fea...

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...zzling on hot gravel?’ ‘With a blue veil over his head, and his clothes in strips. Has any man here a needle? I’ve got a piece of sugar-sack.’ ‘I’ll l... ... have seen an Esneh camel-driver have the black hide taken off his body in strips for stealing half a pound of wet dates, and he was as tough as whipc... ...ssly and cannot understand that inclination does not im- ply power; of the Americans, whose rasping voices in the hush of a hot afternoon strain tense... ...d was going from him. The stupid bewilderment on his face was so intensely comic that both Dick and Torpenhow, still panting and unstrung from a fight... ...ht That Failed ‘When one comes to think of it the situation is in- tensely comic. Maisie’s quite right—poor little thing. I didn’t know she could cry ...

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...RD TO DARSIE LATIMER I write on the instant, as you direct; and in a tragi-comic humour, for I have a tear in my eye and a smile on my cheek. Dearest ... ...f a profes- sional nature. I will tell you the matter at length, for it is comical enough; and why should not you list to my juridical adven- tures, a... ... those complicated formalities with which it had been loaded, as a surgeon strips from a wound the dressings which had been hastily wrapped round it, ... ...ght is by no means an improb- able fiction. Shortly after the close of the American war, Sir James Graham of Netherby constructed a dam-dyke, or cauld...

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...mmed with imagi- 10 The History of Mr. Polly nation that the cheap boys’ “comics” of to-day have replaced. At fourteen, when he emerged from the vall... ...ight beds, and this into a third apart- ment with yellow grained paper and American cloth tables, which was the dining-room by day and the men’s sitti... ...p, and behind, in pursuit of contrasted bleakness, he was now hanging long strips of grey silesia and chilly coloured linen dusterings. It was wonderf... ...o have known that woman. At Canterbury, too, he first to his knowledge saw Americans. His shop did a good class trade in Westgate Street, and he would... ...nothing. He went one night to a music hall and developed a vague idea of a comic performance; the comic men seemed violent rowdies and not at all funn...

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...rgely made up for by the good will and generous efforts of the English and American press. An interesting monograph might be written upon these variou... ...ut out a bed of begonias. In Paris I met a charming 50 War and the Future American writer, the wife of a French artist, the lady who wrote My House o... ...nally into the writer’s study there come to hand drifting fragments of the American literature upon the ques- tion of “preparedness,” and American pap... ... world’s affairs so as to make another war improbable. Already these serio-comic T anks, weighing something over twenty tons or so, have gone slitheri... ...an to explain one’s home politics to an intelligent foreigner enquirer; it strips off all the secondary considerations, the allusiveness, the merely t...

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...s. Probably she sees Mrs. Burman?’ ‘Mrs. Burman Radnor receives no one.’ A comic severity in the tone of the correction was deferen- tially accepted b... ...e that helps to keep the patient living!’ Fenellan sent an eye of discreet comic penetration travel- ling through his friend. ‘The City’s mending; it’... ...mpliment was acknowledged by her, in her demure fashion; with a reserve of comic intellectual contempt for the man who could not see that women, or Fr... ... He thanked heaven to his wife often, that he had nothing to do with North American or South American mines and pastures or with South Africa and, gol... ...and in- structed Germans not deviously march; whom acute and ad- venturous Americans, with half a cock of the eye in passing, compassionately outstrip... ...nt of commercial matters: rivalries of Banks; Foreign and Municipal Loans, American Rails, and Argen- tine; new Companies of wholesome appearance or s... ...e implied pathetic reference to a surgically-treated nose under a cross of strips of plaster, could not obtain dis- missal for him. And he had one eye...