The Essential Lenny Bruce by Lenny; John Cohen (editor) Bruce

By Lenny; John Cohen (editor) Bruce

From the brain of Lenny Bruce. an excellent social commentator,

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On a cold, stormy December night, Colonel James A. Mulligan, whose Irish Brigade had surrendered to Confederate forces in Lexington, Missouri back in September, draws a large, eager crowd to hear him speak from the balcony of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Strange metallic leviathans are afloat on the Hudson River. Boardinghouse dinners are all abuzz with the Mason-Slidell affair and rumors of French and English support for the Confederacy. Stocks and commodities are in nervous fluctuation. The New York 7th Regiment can be seen in the city streets, now parading spiritedly into Lafayette Place for a grand review, now moving somberly toward the funeral of one of the regiment's first casualties.

I can only give you the facts as they are transpiring this minute," he told Frank. The letters betray the diarist's obsession with making the dream of one's life real by getting it all down on paper before it vanishes, and fortunately there was ample time for Lauderdale to do so aboard the January. 38 As it happened, Lauderdale served his term without encountering anything like the extensive medical practice which his brother Willis had promised with such assurance. By his own estimate, Lauderdale spent no more than a total of forty days treating patients.

At every place we stop the people come out of their houses to see the sailors. M. We have been detained by the engine breaking something & while it is being fixed the sailors get out of the cars & wash their faces in a little brook nearby. The passengers look on & ask what is the matter & complain about the delay. In the distance are 5 women who are also looking on. They appear to be boiling sap in the woods opposite. This is a rather hard looking country through this western part of Ohio. The houses are either log or brick.

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