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...fine champagne, or un bock, s'il vous plaît, they lean forward over their tables and start the conversation with: Qu'est-ce que se passe en Alsace Lorraine; qu'est-ce que se passera? Herriot, que va-t-il faire là-bas...
...Spazzums" Tricycles, Deferential Dukes The Story. Despite his flat, black, curly beard, which gave him the appearance of an Assyrian bas-relief, Mr. Heath started out in life as headmaster of a typical English parish school at South Barnet. He invested in a tricycle, to facilitate his trips from home to school. And he might have tricycled himself and his numerous family right out of this story, had it not been for his "accident." The tricycle hit a rock one day, gave him a nervous breakdown from which, according to himself, he never recovered. From the day of the accident...
Three large bookcases contain every book, pamphlet, or address ever written by or about Lincoln. There is a group of miniature reproductions of all the famous statues of Lincoln. On the walls are hung bas reliefs of the former president, an old engraving which hung in the room in which he died, the program for Booth's performance in the Font threatre on the night that Lincoln was assassinated, and the flier issued by the war department offering a $200,000 reward for the capture of his murderer...
...Those who were promised to the bonus but would like to change their allegiance-they exclaimed : " Lesser taxes, yes, but a bonus, too!" 3) Those progressives and radicals who were both sworn to the bonus and opposed to lowering the income taxes of the rich- they cried: " A bas Mellon! Bonus! Bonus! Bonus! " 4) The tacticians who feared to oppose the third group (progressives and radicals) for fear they might attempt legislative sabotage...
...bas! Enthusiasm grips me! Is it truly a superior life that I shall find there ? I hope it, since I go, but I am not sure. ... If the true indeed is there, what matter money losses? Fatigue, even danger, are nothing. I feel ready to brave all to go and receive, in the New Rome, the revolutionary baptism...