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...stripling of 24) secured command of a revolutionary brigade in Shanghai and lived for several months the gay life of a looter, profligate ?drunken and debauched. Suddenly he cut short this spree and when convivial friends assembled to remonstrate he cried: ''You are my friends! My friends? Bah! I have given up your kind of life to give my real services to my country. . . . You are not MY friends...
...public? Bah! The public be damned . . ." snorted bullet-headed Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt many years...
...Cincinnati functions the well-named and famous Zoo Opera, numbering among its baritones Robert Ringling, nephew of the Circus poo-bah (TIME, Nov. 28). More ambitious than most, the Cincinnati vocalists intend this year to specialize in Wagner, for he is an idol with local auditors. Later, for the last three weeks of their season, they will concentrate on light opera, especially the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, a source of fatigue to the listening monkeys...
Lately "a lot of stories have been going around"--stories which have to do with graft in the City Council. That austere body, like Pooh Bah, the Lord High Everything Else, has decided that it must investigate itself and discover its own corruption or integrity as the case...
...some great steeds, bah Jove. There's Charley I've had him ever since old John Ringling brought me and the rest of the family to this country 15 years ago. And then, there's Thunder he was born in a terrific storm; that's how he got his name. He was nearly killed several years ago when he reared and struck his head going into a box car. It was just midnight on New Year's Eve some New Year present, eh wot? The other two are Ned and Johnny. Those horses are just like children to me look...