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...spring of 1869 he was pardoned by President Andrew Jackson." Your history, TIME, your history! I blush...
...letter, as you say, dear Cicero, does not blush. Wherefore, I write you. And I know, you being a philosopher and a man of imagination, will understand the license I take with Time. Pray, was it not one of your own countrymen who said: "Time does not go; we go?" But to come to my business...
...George, look what big feet he has!" And much at this I did smile but did not let on I understood until I was about to leave when in my laboured Greek I remembered and spoke the line: "Why not look even unto your own, Madame!" Whereupon she did blush exceedingly and the husband was much peeved at her and did follow me in the street hollering: "You please forgive; this-a woman, she all a-time make-a trouble for me!" I, very merry, to the Tower for lunch...
Statistics are assuredly not flattering in surveying the contribution made by the selected schools to the government, either past or present. The sum total of twenty-seven United States Senators, one Supreme Court Justice, and one President (out of twelve selected school's) should cause a blush to come to the face of every loyal Grotonian were it not for the inescapable fact that the American government, by its fundamental structure and development, has much more to do with the situation than any failure on the schools themselves. A government of forty-eight particularistic and jealously provincial states is hardly...
...blush, and flutter their eyelids, and show the most delicate signs of embarrassment when any indelicate subject is touched on in conversation? Modest young women of Cambridge...