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...brisk campaigns made vassals of its 44 tribes. To celebrate that feat the Roman Senate & People raised to their first Emperor, Augustus Caesar, a great monument, on a lonely hill overlooking the Mediterranean and the shore road along which the legions marched toward Spain. Like a great stone wedding cake, the Trophy of the Alps rose 150 ft., topped by a stone Augustus. With the centuries the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals and Huns tore the great pile apart. Later still it was converted into a fort. Louis XIV, who disliked other men's monuments, had it blown up. Seven years...
...fats, of which two-thirds came from beyond the seas. At present prices the 3? tax amounts on the average to a 100% ad valorem levy. All soap makers use some imported fats, and they bluntly declare that the new impost will add 25% to the price of a cake of soap...
...wait, gently and innocently, on the sidelines. Let the characteristic American frankness get caught with its hand in the jam and invite upon itself the food of criticism and abuse which the Japanese military delight in. Let America get into difficulties and let the European good children get the cake. In short my plea is: America watch...
...Into the White House trooped 319 members of the Harvard Class of '04 with their families, shook hands and exchanged anecdotes with their old classmate Frank Roosevelt. Afterwards they adjourned to the south lawn of the White House for punch and cake with Mrs. Roosevelt...
...West Point, Ga., Nadine Earle's 25 Sunday-school classmates came to her fourth birthday party, played in the miniature house which was her Christmas present, ate ice cream & cake. Nadine's miniature house stands on Nadine's grave. She died week before Christmas...