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Never once did the committee come within four aces of averting a strike. It would have been infra dig for both operators and miners (accustomed to the intervention of U. S. Presidents, or, at the least, of Pennsylvania Governors) to lie down together at the behest of the local citizenry...
...behest of Premier Takaaki Kato, all Cabinet Ministers forgathered to hear Finance Minister Yuko Hamaguchi expound why all the land tax shall continue to be paid to the Government and not be divided with the provincial administrations as the Opposition desired...
...dirge swelled and another wake was held at the 19th green, where, of two birdie 3's almost in hand, one fluttered away from defending-Champion Harrison ("Jimmy") Johnston, sandy St. Paulian, and the other nestled in the cup at the cunning behest of rugged Rial Rolfe, former University of Illinois golf captain...
...window. The Morrow version of that event, which aims at being "a very appealing piece of fiction," fabricates a Rose Franklin, Iphigeneia of the period, to collaborate with Lincoln on his very lofty plane of motives. Her part is to forswear, at Lincoln's behest, a well beloved fianceé, in the interest of political lubrication. At this she is most satisfactory, as is the centre of interest -save for one melodramatic reference to his dead Anne Rutledge. Among the "appealing" details is the token Lincoln had from Rose's small brother and which he concealed...
Even so, at the behest of the local Rotary Club, the business men of Denver bowed their heads for two minutes, prayed for rain to help the farmers...