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Famed and unique is the network of subterranean mains which supply a score of factory towns in the German Ruhr with cheapest natural...
Goaded by this blasphemy beyond endurance, a local Frankfurt clergyman leaped up from his balcony seat signaled to the gallery. There parishioners and sympathizers sat in cheapest seats with stench and tear bombs ready. At the signal they let fly, aiming not at the players but at the patently godless Frankfurters who sat in orchestra stalls. Ladies in sparkling décolleté who had never smelt anything worse than an onion, found their gowns and hair suddenly reeking with a liquid that stank like putrid eggs. Gentlemen in evening dress who had never wept, shed rivulets as tear bombs...
...easily damaged by the elements against which it is supposed to be a protection. Why then do Englishmen generally, and American undertakers and politicians in particular, wear it? For a simple reason. The silk hat is a symbol of respectability. Expensive as silk hats are, they still offer the cheapest of all known ways to achieve the outward semblance of respectability...
...Berliners knew, of course, of what Geheimrat von Opel was grumbling. From the great Opel works at Russelheim (between Frankfort and Mayence) there pour into Germany more than 250 cheap automobiles daily. Opel builds the cheapest, most standardized of all German cars. And, as a result, Opel has cornered more than half the German market. Other producers (Daimler-Benz, "Nag," Hansa-Lloyd, Adler, Horsch, Magirus, "NSU," Gothaer Waggon, Bayrische Motoren) call Opel the "General Motors of Germany...
...mass of delayed mail and frenzied telegrams there usually comes a solution and many are the improptu pallets of Harkness prepared in the name of the vague old days at preparatory school. And today, as lectures close, the game is on; may the best man come out cheapest...