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...cks was very red, the mangle with its put-up board was white-scrubbed, the American oil-cloth on the table had a gay pattern, there was a warm fire, t... ...ritish Government,” and “bad for the people—good for the people,” made him malevolently angry. The doctor was nonplussed for a moment. Then he gath- ... ...o quiet, they had the dangerous impassivity of the Bohemian, Pari- sian or American rather than English. “Cigarette, Julia?” said Robert to his wife. ... ...g; our story continues by night. The box was large and important, near the stage. Josephine and Julia were there, with Robert and Jim—also two more me... ... as impossible to be there without some feeling of horror at the sight the stage presents. Josephine leaned her elbow and looked down: she knew how ar... ...ing that proud, rather stiff bend of her head was. She had some aboriginal American in her blood. But as she looked, she pursed her mouth. The artist ... ..., and looked like a eunuch. This fattish, emasculated look seems common in stage he- roes—even the extremely popular. The tenor sang bravely, his mout... ... can’t stand it that Robert offers to hand her into the taxi.” He gave his malevolent grin round the company, then went out. He did not reappear for t... ... answer. “Did you ever keep count?” Tanny persisted. Jim looked up at her, malevolent. “I believe I did,” he replied. “Forty is the age when a man sho...

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...ad of his brother of the steerage is one altogether of sentiment. In the steerage there are males and females; in the second cabin ladies and gentleme... ...second cabin ladies and gentlemen. For some time after I came aboard I thought I was only a male; but in the course of a voyage of discovery between d... ...learned that I was still a gentleman. Nobody knew it, of course. I was lost in the crowd of males and females, and rigorously confined to the same qua... ... who deserve a special word of condemnation. One of them was Scots; the other claimed to be American; admitted, after some fencing, that he was born i... ...ne, for instance, the composition of which he had bought years ago for five dollars from an American pedlar, and sold the other day for a hundred poun... ...ead break in the course of our enjoyment. STEERAGE TYPES WE HAD A FELLOW on board, an Irish-American, for all the world like a beggar in a print by Ca... ...d the lower; and I wish some one would continue my experiment, and find out exactly at what stage of toilette a man becomes invisible to the well-regu... ...seemed to lose all interest in the result. 80 Essays of Travel Wendover (which was my next stage) lies in the same val- ley with Great Missenden, but... ...l clock, as marking the advance of the abstraction, time, makes a more humorous business of stage-coaching than we are used to see it. As far as the e...

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...8 The Country of the Blind on a way of settling him at last. It is a South American dodge. I joined all my fishing-lines together with stems of seawee... ...yelps, lip-gnawings, glaring horrors, and other emotional symbolism of the stage. It becomes at last a mere deaf-and-dumb language to them, which they... ..., the people were supposed to be English and were dressed like fashionable Americans of the current epoch, and I fell into the natural error of suppos... ...the current epoch, and I fell into the natural error of supposing that the actors were try- ing to represent human beings. I looked round on my first-... ...more exaggerated gestures. “Really, one might think it a disease,” I said—“Stage-Walkitis!” (There’s many a truth spoken in jest.) Then, if I remember... ...ed at- tention to the conventional attitudes and intonation of the English stage was gradually affecting my speech and carriage. I was giving way to t... ...bble sat, luckily for himself, at a safe distance, regarding him. The four malefactors, feigning a profound absorption in their work, watched him furt... ...tres, and “all that.” And in addition were aunts of his wife, and cousins (male and female) to eat up capital, insult him per- sonally, upset business... ...eboard partially covered by a black velvet cloth, and beside a decanter of American whisky. It is from 202 The Country of the Blind Mr. Wace, indeed,...

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...r- thy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. In the American Revolutionary war sacrifices were made by men engaged in it, but t... ...r newer States, and less than in some of our larger ones. They are not all American colonists or their descendants. Something less than 12,000 have be... ... so radically changed, for the mo- ment, the occupations and habits of the American people, has necessarily disturbed the social condition, and affect... ..., and also the evidence in his possession upon which some of the principal actors and head men were tried and condemned to death,” I have the honor to... ...sons thus recited, it was enacted by the said statute that all able-bodied male citizens of the United States, and persons of foreign birth who shall ... ...SON ST AGER. W AR DEPARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, D. C., May 24, 1863.10.40 ANSON STAGER, Cleveland, O.: Late last night Fuller telegraphed you, as you say, ... ...t their hands to the paper, it pleased Almighty God to take both from this stage of action. This was indeed an extraordinary and remarkable event in o... ...braham Lincoln: V ol Six President, five years after, was called from this stage of exist- ence on the same day and month of the year; and now on this... ...ong the exceptions are the massacre of vanquished foes and non-combatants, male and female. But the proclamation, as law, either is valid or is not va...

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...top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form?d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing....

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...e Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for ... ... 16 The prophet and the bard, Shall yet maintain themselves, in higher stages yet, Shall mediate to the Modern, to Democracy, interpret yet to t... .... With firm and regular step they wend, they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions, One generation playing its part and passi... ...or backward towards me to listen, With eyes retrospective towards me. 3 Americanos! conquerors! marches humanitarian! Foremost! century marches! ... ...smissing it, I stand in my place with my own day here. Here lands female and male, Here the heir ship and heiress ship of the world, here the flame of... ...with you is heroism upon land and sea, And I will report all heroism from an American point of view. I will sing the song of companionship, I will sho... ...it underlying all, and I will be the bard of personality, And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other, And sexual org... ...s of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof, Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content, Is the certainty of the ... ...Leaves of Grass –Whitman 371 A song to narrate thee. 2 Ever upon this stage, Is acted God’s calm annual drama, Gorgeous processions, songs of b...

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...light of steps leading into a square walled garden, with a couple of stone male and female ma- rine divinities accommodating their fishy extremities a... ...ng in indignant distress, and the bantering, indo- lent determination of a male annoyer. ‘Hark!’ exclaimed Berenger; ‘this must be seen to.’ ‘Have a c... ... a great and terrible tragedy, whose first act was being played out on the stage where they schemed and sported, like their own little drama, which wa... ...t in that weak, unwilling heart. It was not till the memoirs of the secret actors in this tragedy were brought to light that the key to these doings w... ...ble gallery accommodated the audience, and left full space beneath for the actors. Down the centre of the stage flowed a stream, broad enough to conta... ...dience, and left full space beneath for the actors. Down the centre of the stage flowed a stream, broad enough to contain a boat, which was plied by t... ...of Pearls galimatias of mythology, a pasteboard cloud was propelled on the stage, and disclosed the deities Mercury and Cupid, who made a complimentar... ... and he was no more than a French duke distantly related to royalty in the male line, and more nearly through his grandmother and bride. The eight hun... ...in general the scum of the nation—were apt to comport themselves more like American buccaneers than like champions of any form of religion. La Sableri...

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...r Jacko, and comfort him till I come back.’ Jacko was a middle-sized South American monkey, and had been a pet of her husband’s. He was supposed to be... ...estimate of the domestic life of Major and Mrs. Strike. Among the garrison males, his comrades, he passed for a disgustingly jealous brute. The ladies... ...his failures. He would not see that there was a father dead. At a table of actors, Mr. Andrew overdid his part, and was the worst. His wife could not ... ...ony spent, he at once believed himself an actor, and he was hissed off the stage of a provincial theatre. ‘Ruined, the last ignominy endured, I fled f... ...d pipes, were strewn upon the table. But if the guests had arrived at that stage when to reach the arm, or arrange the person, for a sip of good stuff... ...uct themselves as if they were at a play, and the rest of the company paid actors. He had likewise taken a posi- tion, and had been the first to laugh... ...ious feeling that had possessed him while she was rattling among the other males—a doubt whether she ever cast a thought on Mr. Evan Harrington. ‘Y es... ... softly-shadowed differences of a grand manner addressed to ladies, and to males, were exquisitely accomplished by the Countess de Saldar. 134 Evan H... ...his thigh. Acting (as it was his 171 George Meredith nature to do off the stage), he had not exaggerated his pro- found melancholy. Of a light soil a...

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...SMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRIN- ITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE. T HE ACTORS IN THE OLD TRAGEDIES, as we read, piped their iambics to a tune, spe... ...Castlewood (the second Viscount), of King Charles the First’s time, had no male issue save his one son, Eustace Esmond, who was killed, with half of t... ...ferring the title of Marquis of Esmond on my Lord Castlewood and the heirs-male of his body; his appointment as Lord-Lieutenant of the County, and Maj... ...and tearful eyes conveyed them. Then, perhaps, the pair reached that other stage which is not uncommon in married life, when the woman perceives that ... ...not to be imagined that Harry Esmond had all this experience at this early stage of his life, whereof he is now writing the history—many things here n... ...ordingly, he took leave of Castlewood, proposing to ride to London by easy stages, and lie two nights upon the road. His host treated him with a stud-... ...fiddlers, laced clothes, fine furniture, and parasites, Jew and Christian, male and female, who clung to him. As, according to the famous maxim of Mon... ...he lobby: and as he sat on the stage more people looked at him than at the actors, and watched him; and I remember at Ramillies, when he was hit and f... ... is independent in all but the name, (for that 350 Henry Esmond the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island for twe...

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...ent the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this repo...

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...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...1 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash site, ... ...Easton Police Department and relayed what he had heard. 45 Also at 8:52, a male flight attendant called a United office in San Francisco, reaching Mar... ...ss. Although the Boston Center air traffic controller realized at an early stage that there was something wrong with American 11, he did not immediate... ...ent. And, as a Palestinian, he saw Israel as the top priority for the next stage. 26 Whether the dispute was about power, personal differences, or str... ...s, missile defense, and glob- alization.Terrorism infrequently took center stage; and when it did, the con- text was often terrorists’ tactics—a chemi... ...was to land the tenth plane at a U.S. airport and, after killing all adult male passengers on board and alerting the media, deliver a speech excoriati... ...ter the move, Bayoumi used their apartment for a party attended by some 20 male members of the Muslim community.At Bayoumi’s request, Bin Don videotap...

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...n India, along much of the coast of Africa, and in the ports of China and Japan, is still to be heard, in its home country, in half a hundred varying stages of transition. You may go all over the States, and -- setting aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigners, negro, French, or Chinese -- you shall scarce meet with so marked a difference of accent as in the f...

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...an, is still to be heard, in its home country, in half a hundred vary- ing stages of transition. You may go all over the States, and – setting aside t... ...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John ... ...the largest, to a clique of states; and the whole scope and atmosphere not American, but merely Yankee. I will go far beyond him in reprobating the as... ...h English children begin to grow up and come to themselves in life. As the stage of the Uni- versity approaches, the contrast becomes more express. Th... ...ci- plined and drilled by proctors. Nor is this to be regarded merely as a stage of education; it is a piece of privilege be- sides, and a step that s... ...- tered by another hand, came on the stage itself and was played by bodily actors; the other, originally known as Semiramis: A Tragedy, I have observe... ...tely stem. In boyhood, as he told me once, speaking in that tone that only actors and the old-fashioned common folk can use nowadays, his 38 Robert L... ...ir, an abstraction, an excuse for talk, a logical Aunt Sally, then may the male debater instantly abandon hope; he may employ reason, adduce facts, be...