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About this time a smell of frying bacon from the Parliamentary kitchen permeated the House, and so many members rushed out to breakfast that only desperate efforts by the whips maintained a quorum (40). With all but inhuman perseverance Mr. Snowden sat on, ignoring breakfast time, snarling through the long, hot morning, still relentless as noon approached and passed. Suddenly Mr. Churchill challenged on a minor issue, demanded a division (vote). In this emergency no tellers could be found. They had sneaked out to lunch. Triumphantly Snowden-baiter Churchill moved adjournment in this "emergency" and the Chancellor was forced...
...Albert Bacon Fall, 69, infirm, bribe-convicted (at liberty under bond) Harding Secretary of the Interior, applied to the U. S. for a Spanish War pension in recognition of his service as Captain of Company H, 1st Volunteers, Territorial Infantry. Mr. Fall is in serious financial straits: his New Mexico ranch was lately sold to meet creditors' claims; the U. S. is trying to collect $235,325 back income taxes from him. If his application is pension-worthy he will receive, per month: at most. $72; at least, $40, according to disabilities proven...
Reelected. Fred Lookout, Progressive, to be Chief of the Osage Indians, by 163 out of 397 oilrich Oklahoma braves who in expensive motors went to Pawhuska, voted against onetime Chief Tom Bacon Rind, Conservative, and Paul Red Eagle, Independent candidate...
...Answer either (a) or (b) as your instructor directs. (a) Compare the point of view of Bacon with that of Abraham Adams on one of the following subjects: marriage, travel, friendship, (b) Complete Bacon's thought in each of the following sentences: "And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from....men." "Wives are young men's...for middle...
...because he is very close to Yale, suggests a number of questions which would be fair to sophomores. They seem to give the mind a chance. for instance, "Show in what way each of the following men represented their era: Milton, Pope, Fielding, Byron. And "Compare the viewpoints of Bacon, Milton and Byron on marriage." Show how Milton justifies the ways of God to man." Give six devices by which Milton enhances his grand style." "Discuss Milton's cosmology or his conception of the Deity.'" These are a few of the questions, but they, seem to give the student...