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… architects of the Constitution, and his Federalist credentials were impeccable. A lawyer, financier, and land … American loans and land speculations. Morris received his commission on Jan.21, 1790, in the form of two letters from … the Peace Treaty and free trade with the British West Indies. France, likewise, would yield trade with the rich …

Only the Beginning of the Sharpness “What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.” —Flann O’Brien,  The Third Policeman It’s hard for the master sharpener after all that work to have the shaft taken for the …

… in university English departments, and eventually its audience spread to sophisticated circles outside the academy, … English at Birkbeck College, London, where he taught from 1926 to 1938. For a time, at least, Potter took his job as an … his joke to include areas other than sports, where scoring points through mastery of the symbols of status comes into …

… The Eloquence of Fact Coming into the Country. By John McPhee. Farrar, Straus & … Seattle and Alaska. He has written children’s books, parodies, poetry, book reviews, political commentary, taglines … “Once More to the Lake”). Essays is based largely on The Points of My Compass, a book that in some respects rivals …

… painting (1917) highhat [vb.] (1922) gunny [gunman] (1926) paradiddle (1927) wingding (1927) nooky (1928) snoot [to … into a battleship and then back again; and Yashmeen Halfcourt, a woman with mysterious and perhaps extratemporal … likewise must be always hidden an infinite number of other points—and if we define a ‘world’ as a very large and finite …