Jarnegan"Portrait of a film director." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation |
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Page 117 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
Page 3 - ... men and women and all that concerns them are unspeakably perfect miracles all referring to all and each distinct and in its place. It is also not consistent with the reality of the soul to admit that there is anything in the known universe more divine than men and women. Men and women and the earth and all upon it are simply to be taken as they are, and the investigation of their past and present and future shall be unintermitted and shall be done with perfect candor.
Page 3 - Great genius and the people of these states must never be demeaned to romances. As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
Page 34 - ... and to report to the Advisory Committee. That committee, in turn, examined in great detail and at length, hour after hour, day after day, week after week» month after month, and year after year, the wealth of material that came to it from the bench and bar. I was surprised when the distinguished Representative who was the first witness today implied that there was some kind of cloak-anddagger about these rules.
Page 31 - Silent and morose, Muldoon absorbed the slang of the prison as the months passed. The " big house " was the penitentiary itself. The hospital was the " boogie ",' Jim Tully, Jarnegan, 1928 ; extant. — 3. A ' hobo who imposes upon jails for lodging,
Page 167 - What a fake the whole business is — you eat your heart out for a dame and you get her and you're sick of her in a week. Once the fort surrenders it isn't the fort you wanted — the door's too big — or it lies still like a log — or something — there's always something wrong.
Page 216 - It served him right — he was a scab." Members of the IWW and trade unions found in him a friend. They were striking for something. It was the rebellion in his own soul that he loved in them.
Page 18 - At the trial of Kahahawai's murderers, Darrow pleaded temporary insanity for his clients. The jury brought in a verdict of manslaughter with a recommendation for leniency for Lieutenant Massie "for all he'd suffered." Nevertheless, Judge Charles S. Davis sentenced each of the four to ten years at hard labor in O'ahu Prison. Significantly, however, the perpetrators, who were not held in jail during the trial, which was the custom, but stayed aboard the USN Alden...
Page 63 - They're a Union gang with Ringling's, and they'll feed the guy that killed Japper, by God. ... I can hold my head up anyhow when I meet my own kind — that's worth something.
Page 100 - His creed with women, unchanging through the years, was, "If I don't — some one else will.