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Rudyard Kipling’s Enormous Eyebrows

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<blockquote As I grew older my father took me with him to see his friends. There were lunches with John Buchan, who gave me six autographs to swap at school, and with Kipling, who balanced a pencil on his eyebrows for my entertainment.   — Julian Amery , Approach March: A Venture in . . . . Continue Reading »

Naomi Schaefer Riley Is Right

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Why would anyone want to write a dissertation about black midwifery — wasn’t that subject closed with Gone With the Wind ? How could there be anything to say after “I don’t know nothing ’bout birthin’ babies!” To want more information than that, a person . . . . Continue Reading »