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. . . LABELS see: "NAMES" Once you label me, you negate me. --Sφren Kierkegaard (18131855) Danish philosopher. Don't rely too much on labels, Far too often they are fables. --Charles Haddon Spurgeon (18341892) English nonconformist preacher. "Salt-Cellars"  . . see "CAPITALISM" for related links Neither the common law nor the Fourteenth Amendment confers the absolute right to strike. --Louis Brandeis (18561941) American lawyer and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [19161939]. In a Supreme Court opinion "Dorchy v. Kansas" [1926]. There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time. --Calvin Coolidge (18721933) American Republican statesman and President [19231929]. In a telegram to Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor [regarding the Boston police strike 14 September 1919.] They all know I'm back, very much back, and that I will be the general president again come hell or high water. I'm not a guy who believes in limited warfare, so the rats better start jumping the ship. --Jimmy Hoffa (19131975 {disappeared}) American labor leader. _Hoffa: The Real Story_ [1975] Unionism seldom, if ever, uses such power as it has to insure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad work. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. _Prejudices: Third Series_ [1922], Chapter 4 It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize. --Theodore Roosevelt (18581919) American Republican statesman and President [19011909]. In a speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin [14 October 1912]. ;void(0)) . . see: "ADIRONDACKS" see "NATURE" for other related links see "PLACES" for other related links Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a a contour of mountains into a basin thirty-five miles long and from two to four miles broad, finely interspersed with islands, its water limpid as crystal and the mountainsides covered with rich groves of silver fir, white pine, aspen and paper birch down to the water, here and there precipices of rock to checker the scene and save it from monotony. An abundance of speckled trout, salmon trout, bass, and other fish with which it is stored, have added to our other amusements the sport of taking them. --Thomas Jefferson (17431826) American statesman and president [18011809].  LANDRY (TOM) . . Tom Landry (19242000) Coach of Dallas Cowboys [19601988] see "PEOPLE" for related links see "FOOTBALL" No, but I was only there nine years. --Walt Garrison (1944 ) American football player. When asked if he had ever seen Coach Landry smile. . . see "DEATH" for related links Thomas Jefferson still survives. --John Adams (17351826) First VP and second President of the United States. On July 4 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence {Adams was wrong, Jefferson had died a few hours earlier, but also on the fourth. On the day before, concerned that he might die before the anniversary, Jefferson had utttered his last words: 'Is it the fourth?' and then slipped into a coma - GBAQ. Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait. --Ethan Allen (17381789) American soldier and frontiersman, leader of the Green Mountain Boys during the Revolutionary War. Responding to his physician's observation: 'General, I fear the angels are waiting for you.' Am I dying or is this my birthday? --Lady Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor (18791964) American-born, first woman to take a seat in the British House of Commons. (When she momentarily awoke to find herself surrounded by her entire family.) How were the circus receipts today at Madison Square Garden? --Phineas T. Barnum (18101891) American showman. [7 April 1891] Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. --John Barrymore (John Sidney Blythe) (18821942) Shakespearean actor. Now comes the mystery. --Henry Ward Beecher (18131887) American Congregational minister; [brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher.] Goodbye, kid. Hurry back. --Humphrey Bogart (18991957) American actor. To his wife Lauren Bacall, as she left the room for a moment [14 January 1957]. I am about to or I am going to die; either expression is used. --Dominique Bouhours (16321702) Pre-eminent French Jesuit grammarian who worked endlessly to promote a high standard of correctness and purity in the French language. The South, the poor South! God knows what will become of her. --John C. Calhoun (17821850) American political leader who was U.S. congressman, secretary of war, vice president [18251832], senator, and secretary of state. He championed states' rights. and slavery and was a symbol of the Old South. - EB. In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts...and in living color, we bring you another first, an attempted suicide. --Christine Chubbuck (19441974) American television news reporter. "Sunshine Broadcast", WXLT-TV, Sarasota FL [15 July 1974] She shot herself during the broadcast. All my possessions for a moment of time. --Elizabeth I (15331603) Queen of England and Ireland [15581603]. Attributed in "Littell's Living Age" [8 November 1856]. How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? French fries. --James French, electrocuted in Oklahoma [1966]. ^ George V (18651936), king of the United Kingdom [19101936]. His doctor assured the dying George V that he would soon be convalescent and able to go to his favorite seaside resort of Bognor Regis on the south coast of England. "Bugger Bognor," said the monarch and expired. --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this. --Thomas J. Grasso, a convicted killer who was executed March 20, 1995 in Oklahoma, on his last meal falling short of his expectations. I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. --Nathan Hale (17551776) American revolutionary. About to be hanged as a spy by the British during the American Revolution [22 September 1776]. Well, I've had a happy life. --William Hazlitt (17781830) English essayist. Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark. --O. Henry [William Sydney Porter] (18621910) American short-story writer. Reported in C. Alphonso Smith _O. Henry_ [1916]. On the contrary. --Henrik Ibsen (18281906) Norwegian playwright. (Just before he died, upon hearing his nurse remark to a visitor that he was feeling better.) Quoted in Michael Meyer _Ibsen_ [1967] [Last words on the scaffold:] Such is life! --Ned Kelly (18541880) Australian outlaw. Quoted in Frank Clune _The Kelly Hunters_ [1958] I wish I'd drunk more champagne. --John Maynard Keynes (18831946) English economist. ^ The actor John Le Mesurier arranged for his own death notice to appear in _The Times_ when appropriate. It duly appeared on 16 November 1983, in the form: 'John Le Mesurier wishes it to be known that he conked out on November 15th. He sadly misses family and friends.' His last words were, 'It's all been rather lovely.' --_The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes_ Introduced by Edward Leeson [2005], "Death" ^ Mind your own business. --[Percy] Wyndham Lewis (18821957) Canadian-born British artist and writer. When his nurse asked him about the state of his bowels on his deathbed. Philippides [or Pheidippides] ... brought the news of the victory from Marathon and addressed the magistrates in session when they were anxious to know how the battle had ended; 'Rejoice, we've won,' he said and then he died breathing his last breath with those words. --Lucian (c. 120c. 180) Greek rhetorician, pamphleteer, and satirist. _A Slip of Tongue in Greeting_, in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004]. Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough! --Karl Marx (18181883) German political philosopher. (When asked by his housekeeper if he had any last words.) [To the firing squad at his execution, 27 February 1902:] Shoot straight you bastards. Don't make a mess of it. --Harry "Breaker" Morant (18641902) English-born Australian poet and soldier. Quoted in Bill Hornadge _The Australian Slanguage_ [1980]. I am just going outside and may be some time. --Captain Lawrence Oates (18801912) English polar explorer. Scott's diary entry [16-17 March 1912] Born in a hotel room and God damn it died in a hotel room. --Eugene O'Neill (18881953) American playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. Quoted in Arthur and Barbara Gelb _O'Neill_ [1962]. Die, my dear doctor, that's the last thing I shall do! --Lord Palmerston [Henry John Temple] (17841865) British politician. So little done, so much to do. (Said on the day of his death.) --Cecil Rhodes (18531902) South African statesman. In Lewis Mitchell _Life of Rhodes_ [1910]. Why yes, a bulletproof vest! --James W. Rodgers (d.1960) Final request before the firing squad. ^ Jean Jacques Rousseau (17121778) French philosopher and novelist. Rousseau owed a great deal to his patroness, Mme De Vercelles. As she was readying to die, Rousseau waited by her bedside. She could no longer speak, and it was clear death was near. Suddenly, she broke wind loudly. 'Good,' she said, 'a woman who can fart is not dead.' Upon which she died. --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ Put that bloody cigarette out! --Saki [Hector Hugh Munro] (18701916) Scottish writer. In Nigel Rees _Brewer's Famous Quotations_ [2006] The author explains: During a night march on Beaumont-Hamel in the First World War, it was said by Lance-Sergeant Munro to one of his men who had just lit up. [Munro] was killed by a German sniper. Don't duck. Ha, they couldn't hit an elephant at this dis-- --General John B. Sedgwick (18131864) The most senior officer from either side to be killed during the American Civil War. He was shot by a Confederate sniper at the Battle of Spotsylvania [9 May 1864]. If this is dying, then I don't think much of it. --Lytton Strachey (18801932) English biographer. In Michael Holroyd _Lytton Stratchey_ vol. 2 [1968]. I have just had eighteen whiskeys in a row. I do believe that is a record. --Dylan Thomas (19141953) Welsh poet. At a bar in Greenwich Village, NYC. While these were not technically his last words, he died of alcoholic poisoning nine days later. Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. --Pancho Villa (Doroteo Arango Arambula) (18771923) Mexican revolutionary. I still live. --Daniel Webster (17821852) American orator and politician. [24 October 1852] In Samuel P. Lyman _The Public and Private Life of Daniel Webster_ [1885]. I'm fine. Go away. --H.G. Wells (18661946) English novelist. - Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant. Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you. (gladiators saluting the Roman Emperor) --anon., in Suetonius _Lives of the Caesars_ "Claudius" We are putting passengers off in small boats. . . Engine room getting flooded. . . CQ. (CQD was the original SOS call for shipping.) --anon., last signals sent from the "Titanic" [15 April 1912] ;void(0)) LAS VEGAS . . see: "GAMBLING" see "PLACES" for other related links We stayed at Caesar's Palace, a giant hotel-casino authentically decorated to look exactly the way the Roman Empire would have looked if it had consisted mainly of slot machines. --Dave Barry (1947 ) American humorist. Los Angeles is a place that operates on hope and there is still something pure about that. It helps one see through the dirty air. Vegas is different . . . It operates on desire and on that road is ultimate heartbreak. --Michael Connelly (1956 ) American author of detective novels. _The Narrows_, 2004, pp. 36-37 - [While headlining at the Desert Inn for four weeks in 1955:] Noλl Coward found Vegas exotic, calling it a "fabulous, extraordinary madhouse" run by polite, dapper gangsters. "Their morals are bizarre in the extreme," he wrote in his diary. "They are generous, mother-worshippers, sentimental, and capable of much kindness. They are also ruthless, cruel, violent, and devoid of scruples ... curious products of a most curious adolescent country." --Joe Brown _Las Vegas Sun_ [14 May 2009] - A natural habitat, where the unnatural runs rampant. --Robin Finn, _New York Times_ [29 October 1990] It is highwayman and whore on the desert road, a city both veneer and venereal, dedicated to waste and excess, heartless and without a heart; a town where, probably, nothing good or worthwhile has ever happened, nor ever will...As I set off I did not look back in case I was struck into salt. --Trevor Fishlock British writer and broadcaster. _Americans and Nothing Else_ [1980] Las Vegas...is a man-made paradise, the fallen Adam in the arms of a neon serpent...This is Playland as Eden, essentially infantile, but it entrances many bored people, including lot of foreigners. --Robert Mazzocco, "Letter from Las Vegas", _New York Review of Books_ [15 September 1977] It's like a garbage disposal for money. --Robert Orben (1927 ) American magician and comedy writer. - kap posting to USENET in 1998 about the charms of Las Vegas: We took the monorail up to the new hotel, Mandalay Bay, where I planned to see the statue of Lenin. You see, each bar at Mandalay Bay has a theme and the vodka bar's theme is Russia which is why the hotel put a statue of Lenin outside the bar. Anyway, Lenin apparently wasn't a very nice fellow and some people asked, "Who's next, Hitler?" The hotel did an about-face and one evening three weeks ago removed his head and, to add insult to injury, poured phony bird poop all over the statue. - When we first moved out here, we noticed that most of the people were a little 'slow'. Ok stupid if you prefer. It's not that they're really stupid it's the heat (it fries your brain after a while.) So when we went to Macy's we found two sets of doors to keep out the light and heat. On the outside doors the sign reads "Open Sundays 12-8" The inside doors read "Open Sundays 11-8" Go figure! We are just as bad. We go to the casino and leave behind lots and lots of cash. Then when we get enough points (for playing the machines), we get a free dinner. We're always happy that we get a 'free' meal, even though a steak probably cost us $500. Good steak though. Go figure! kap - Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one .45 caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing: antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fellah could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff. --"Dr Strangelove, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" [After the plane landed the flight] attendant said, 'Ladies and gentlemen, we would like to welcome you to San Francisco. Unfortunately, this is Las Vegas.' --anon. As reported by Dwayne Chestnut, in Herb Caen column in "San Francisco Chronicle" [11 August 1993]. - The review below appeared in the "Desert Aria" (newspaper) in 1983 by Lisa Coffey ZUCKERMAN DAZZLES LAS VEGANS Wednesday, January 18, Pinchas Zuckerman conducted and perjformed [sic] with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in an all Beetthoven [sic] concert at Ham Hall. Those Las Vegans lucky enough to attend were treated to an evening of performance of a caliber shamefully rare in a city of a half million people. The first half of the program, consisting of the Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus and the Symphony No. 4 in B-flat, Op. 60, was somewhat disappointing in that Zuckerman conducted the orchestra with his back to the audience. While one cannot fault him entirely for assuming the traditional posture of the vast majority of great maestros, it must be said that the choice of his stance in combination with his having also elected to wear the tradtional "tails" all but obscured whatever clarity of physique one might have hoped to savor, even from the best seats. Even so, true genius shines forth. The broad expense [sic] of his shoulders, the abundant wavy dark hair, the well proportioned legs planted oh-so-firmly on the podium were sufficient food for the culture-starved crowd to feast upon throughout even the longest of movements. Perhaps it might even be said that the program order reflected a certain deftness of planning, for it certainly left the audience at intermission clambering [sic] to return to their seats in anticipation of the climactic second half which promised the chance to observe Mr. Zuckerman from the front for the duration of a while violin concerto. [sic] What followed was pure magic, as Zuckerman proved that the combination of virtuosity, artistry and a great body can make even the Concerto in D for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61 seem too short. He inspired his audience where a performer of lesser attributes might have left them bored to death. But who among them could for an instant let her eyes stray from the Maestro as he cradled his violin so gently, yet firmly, with the touch of well proportioned hands made strong and supple by years of torturous practice? Whose eyes could have been other than riveted to the spectacle of the grace and power of the bow arm, the fire in his dark eyes, the tension in his taut thighs as he made reday [sic] to launch into some passionate passage with the energy of an athlete. [sic] Who could but succumb to the tenderness of his smile as he lost himself in the ecstacy of each undulating sweet melodic phrase that surged and swelled from the instrument at his command? It is only a wonder that the audience managed to suppress both thunderous applause and shrieks of pleasure until the end. We can only hope that it not be an eternity before he again graces our stage with the captivating magic of his talents. Mr. Zuckerman is a native of Israel, Middle East. He has recorded quite a number of musical pieces onto records which are considered quite good by those who listen to them. 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