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Now That’s a Lawyer

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From F.E.: The Life of F.E. Smith, the First Earl of Birkenhead . Our hero is defending a tram company being sued by the family of a boy injured on the tracks: It was alleged that this boy could no longer work and was unable to raise his arm above the level of his shoulder. Smith was sympathetic . . . . Continue Reading »

Imagist Shaming

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I don’t want to be one of those women who spends all her time denigrating other women’s life choices, but I have to say that of all the tattoos to get, the full text of William Carlos Williams’s “The Red Wheelbarrow” has got to be one of the worst imaginable. . . . . Continue Reading »