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Anyone meeting Sir Thomas Lipton for a day is charmed by him. There are certain stories that he loves to tell: how as a boy of 18, living in the U. S. anc supporting his mother, he managed to save $320 in 18 months . . . how he walked into the White House one day and spoke to President Hayes, who took him for a despatch boy . . . his remark on being shown the tea thrown overboard during the Boston Tea Party: "They had a lot of good sense. It wasn't Lipton's." He refers to the cup as "that...
...back as 1893 go the Standard-Shell battles. When the contest for markets was in infancy, Deterding was in the Shell service at Batavia (Dutch East Indies) and Meyer was managing the Bom bay office of Standard Oil. Standard anc...
...Baudelaire, in spite of arduous anc meticulous polishing, was not a skilful nor always successful prosodist, and his vocabulary was comparatively small. Gautier, his master, wrote better verse. Anc Joris Karl Huysmans, his disciple, was more artistically erotic...
...Bayou Teche country of the French who fled from Grand Pré, Canada, in 1755. They are les Acadiens. Last week, like other distinguished Frenchmen before him, Ambassador Paul Claudel went there. "Vous êtes ici parmi les Français," a serious local dignitary told him. "Nos ancêstres sont fraçais, nos sentiments sont fraçais, notre religion est fraçais." It was so surprisingly true that the good Ambassador felt himself deeply touched...
...theorists and imitators wert following up my work, but always I remained far ahead of them, constantly meeting new problems which I swiftly grappled anc solved. I returned to England anc formed a company, since known as Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co Ltd., to exploit my work (I have ever been known as a good business man). Permanent stations were built. The first commercia transaction was when I followed the Kingstown Regatta races oJ 1898, on a tug behind the yachts flashing results to the Express ai Dublin. That same year, Queer Victoria was on the Isle of Wight...