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...Ah, Greece, Martet! You must travel by way of Greece to get anywhere you're going. I believe that humanity reached its highest point there, easily, joyously. . . . There's nothing beyond Aeschylus, nothing beyond Plato, nothing beyond Socrates. . . . It's a pity there ever was such a thing as Christianity! One might have lived so well worshiping Jupiter, Mercury, all those gallant deities...
...What, my gallant Marshal, . . . were you so afraid of my counterthrust? Or had it occurred to you that if, as was probable, I died before you, I should for ever have remained post mortem, under the weighty burden of your accusations? . . . Ah, Foch! Foch! . . . What a stain on your memory that you had to wait so many years to give vent to childish recriminations against me through the agency of another, who, whatever his merits, knew not the War as you and I lived...
...Ah, but this coffee loan isn't to support a Brazilian monopoly!" ? that was what suave Mr. Speyer or somebody for him had to say to the State Department, convincingly. It was said ? convincingly. Last week Acting Secretary of State Joseph P. Cotton officially announced that the administration has no objection to the loan, believing that it will be used only for temporary support of the Brazilian hoard. which the hoarders promise to liquidate within ten years...
...President Simmons was honeymooning in Honolulu, it was upon Mr. Whitney, acting president, that all the responsibility fell. So well did he manage things that the governing committee passed a resolution praising him for "efficient and conscientious labors during the severe financial disturbance. ..." Many an outsider reading this said, "Ah! Now perhaps he'll be made president of the Exchange." But brokers, knowing how far ahead such matters are decided, took it as the Committee's way of saying: "See how fine our judgment turned...
Although it is possible for a dog-owner to win permanent possession of a National Championship cup with three different dogs, strangely enough such has never been the case. The only other three-time winners were William Ziegler Jr. of Manhattan and Louis Lee Haggin (nephew of Artist Ben AH Haggin), Owner Ziegler in each case with Mary Montrose (1917, 1919, 1920), Owner Haggin with Becky Broom Hill...