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Since 1454, when Gutenberg started using movable type, most printers and publishers have been glad that he simplified their job. But every once in a while some ant-shaming book designer has insisted on doing his printing as if Gutenberg had never existed, engraving each page laboriously by hand. Such a designer was William Blake, who a century and a half ago painstakingly etched a dozen books (with weird, mystical illustrations) on copper plates...
Soon Honest Harold Ickes, Public Works Administrator, got the idea that too many fat contracts were going to Robert & Co., and Henry Morgenthau (who succeeded Woodin) relieved Assist ant Robert of all but a few routine duties. Then newshawks caught Chip Robert and his wife-to-be, Evelyn Walker Robinson, at a dinner party given by a lobbyist for Utilityman Howard Hopson. Five months later Chip resigned...
After office hours, during World War I, Plewman trained to become an officer, studied military tactics, earned a lieuten ant's certificate. He applied for overseas service, was never called. Plewman foresaw, before most military men, how World War I must end. On Jan. 2, 1918, he wrote: "Everything points to Germany and Austria-Hungary having tremendous and increasing difficulty in persuading their peoples to fight on. ... An enemy offensive on the Western Front this year would leave the enemy worse off than ever, and doomed to certain defeat." There was an offensive : it ended in defeat...
...ant'i dakoh...
...pretty Hungarian Countess. The courtiers left the two pointedly alone in the family's Belgian garden. Shyly and silently Otto walked. Finally he looked at the Countess with his big, soulful brown eyes, relaxed his sullen Habsburg mouth into a smile, asked: "Have you ever considered how industrious ants are?" Industrious but not quite as systematic as an ant, Otto has worked out a plan of restoration. The present war, he says, will end with revolution in Austria, which will spread to Bohemia-Moravia, Slovakia, Poland, the rest of Greater Germany. Then he will form a Danubian Federation...