We're headed for collapse, if you want my opinion, Missy. I can see it in the fallin' off of the quality of vagrants. There was a ...time you could find real good company in almost any jungle you'd pick, men who could talk, men who'd read a book now and then; and now, what do you find, a lot of dirty little guttersnipes no decent tramp would want to associate with. Well, it's been that way all through history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mrs. Sneed and her daughter, Miss Austine Sneed, are visiting us--Washington correspondents of excellent character.... We are much... interested in their accounts of Washington affairs. Nothing could be further from our desire than to return to Washington and again enter its whirl, either socially or politically, but we are interested in seeing Washington with the roof off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As for them saying theres no God I wouldnt give a snap of my two fingers for all their learning why dont they go and create someth...ing I often asked him atheists or whatever they call themselves go and wash the cobbles off themselves first when they go howling for the priest and they dying and why why because theyre afraid of hell on account of their bad conscience ah yes I know them well who was the first person in the universe before there was anybody that made it all who ah that they dont know neither do I so there you are they might as well try to stop the sun from rising tomorrow the sun shines for you he said the day we were lying among the rhododendrons on Howth head.....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The far-off clinching and mating of arches, the leap and thrust of the stone, carrying a great roof overhead, awed and silenced he...r.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What had the man done? Oh, made history. Her business (he had implied) was giving birth,... Tending the house, mending the socks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »