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Herb had brought a pair of ear phones with him, and he and Jimmy connected their phones in series, so that they could both listen at the same time. They had hardly got settled when they heard the resonant tones of the announcer. "Mr. Robert Layton will ask a number of conundrums, the answers to come later." So spoke the announcer. Herb and Jimmy gazed at each other open-mouthed.
"Haven't you noticed?" says she, laughing lightly, and bending so close to Rylton as almost to touch his ear with her lips. "No? Oh, silly boy!" "What do you mean?" asks Rylton a little warmly. "And after so many days! Why, we all have guessed it long ago." "I'm not good at conundrums," coldly. "But this is such an easy one.
In an hour's time, during the bus ride, each of these students would be completely gone from his mind exuded like the entangling conundrums of feeling, ideas, and senses in sleep. If all people were shadows of this realm in the flickering of light, what solid entity cast the shadow? Was it God? Was there a god? If the shadows were more concrete than the light, what would this say about life?
In the public school, apparently, they teach the child to spell cat, then ask it to calculate an eclipse; when it can read words of two syllables, they require it to explain the circulation of the blood; when it reaches the head of the infant class they bully it with conundrums that cover the domain of universal knowledge. This sounds extravagant and is; yet it goes no great way beyond the facts.
Samuel J. Fisher and with a group of infinitely witty women who regaled many an evening hour with their merry quips and conundrums. The unwritten law which prevails in that social realm is: "Each for all, and all for each other." Mr.
It's the social reformers and novelists who create these artificial conundrums; they want to sell their rotten literature; they want to make us forget that the only interesting and important part of the business is what nobody talks or writes about. What does it all amount to? Man creates intellectually and physically. He classifies minerals or blasts out a tunnel.
"I'd rather write out conundrums than anything else," said Curtis Park, seeing some answer was expected. "Good!" Mrs. Sterling beamed on him. "Does any other boy have something to propose?" "Puzzles," said Frick decidedly. "I'd a great deal rather have puzzles; conundrums are just horrid." "Two things to choose from," and Mrs. Sterling laughed.
Each one told the funniest Irish bull she had ever heard, and then all sorts of conundrums and foolish questions were propounded, like, "Which would you prefer, to be as green as you look or to look as green as you are?"
"Clare," she said to Miss Arundel, who was engaged apart, "you always find out conundrums. Lady Clanmorne has got some news for us. Lady Flora Falkirk and her sister are going to be married, and on the same day. And to whom, think you?" "Well, I should think that somebody has made Lord Carisbrooke a happy man," said Miss Arundel. "Very good," said Lady Clanmorne.
"It's almost six o'clock now, so perhaps you'd better go out and get a bite to eat right now. I'll pick out a few good conundrums, and you'd better get back as soon as you can and study them up a bit." "All right," said Bob. "We'll make it snappy." He and Joe and Larry went out and had a quick meal at the nearest restaurant.
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