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Shaw begins to reconstruct, and thinks that the whole matter can be solved by such simple and so far as they go, excellent economic expedients as making women economically independent, and legitimising children, he ceases to be persuasive. There comes a point when brilliant cleverness and sheer logic from necessity miss the truth. It is precisely the cut-and-dried Fabian side of Mr.
"And I don't know which to despise most, the American girls who marry Englishmen, or the Englishmen they marry. They are married for their money." "Who? The Englishmen?" The girl stamped her foot on the deck as they turned around. "You know very well what I mean. An Englishman thinks of nothing but money." "Really? I wonder where you got all your cut-and-dried notions about Englishmen?
But she gathered a sense of it from the set of his square jaw and the flash of his grey eyes; being increasingly in love with him, it was incomprehensible to her that anybody could beat Brent at any game he took a hand in. "The inquiry was all cut-and-dried business," remarked Queenie. "Arranged! Of course the accounts and things would be cooked.
Down in the street Cornelius Allendyce waved off a persistent taxi driver, deciding that he needed the vent of exercise to bring him back to earth. And as he hurried along he felt a curious elation, as though for the first time he enjoyed a zest in living. As a lawyer his life had been necessarily cut-and-dried; there had been little room for adventuring.
I congratulate you. Yes, that's the way certain!" Spargo, idly turning over a pile of exchanges, yawned. "What way?" he asked indifferently. "The way you've written this thing up," said Breton. "It's a hundred thousand times better than the usual cut-and-dried account of a murder. It's it's like a a romance!" "Merely a new method of giving news," said Spargo.
Then again bowing, he returned to his seat. There was no telling how far the "good-naturedness" of Hubbard Squash might go. He had respectfully thanked the principal and the head teacher who had been fooling him. And it was not a formal, cut-and-dried reply he made, either; by his manner, tone and face, he appeared to have been really grateful from his heart.
If any of the Lords thought that the threats used against them in the course of the election meant nothing and were only a kind of bluster to get the Budget passed, they were grievously mistaken. It must have been hard for them to realize that Lloyd George meant all the presumptuous things he said. He was never more in earnest. A cut-and-dried plan had been arranged between him and Mr.
Slowly she straightened up, her hands falling into her lap. I seized them again, I was on my knees in front of her, before the fire, and she, intent, looking down at me, into me, through me it seemed at something beyond which yet was me. "Hugh," she asked, "what do you believe? Anything?" "What do I believe?" "Yes. I don't mean any cant, cut-and-dried morality. The world is getting beyond that.
With cut-and-dried logic their fellows argued that if they were not dead, a scorching ought to be sufficient warning to quit and seek out more comfortable quarters. If the poor wretch woke to find himself on fire, he was burned to death, and nobody pitied him.
Then the Latin line he gave to my quotation; it was very cut-and-dried, very; or I, who haven't looked into a classical author for the last eighteen years, shouldn't have remembered it. Well, Elfride, you had better go to your room; you'll get over this bit of tomfoolery in time. 'No, no, no, papa, she moaned.
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