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...comfortable ?40 million worth of bullion in her vaults toward the end of the last century, could well afford an officer who set records for short hours and long absences (due to illness), occupied himself with punting, sculling and solitary walks. It was another activity that made his fellow Citymen uncomfortable: Kenneth Grahame was a literary sort, who wrote essays about paganism and short stories about children...
Beautee Soap is the stake at which herds of miserable Radio Citymen are burned alive 24 hours a day, to appease both Despot Evans' sadistic love of power and Beautee, and their own terror at the thought of losing Beautee's ten-million-dollar advertising account...
...press conference following the 47-13 rout of his team Saturday. It was quite something for Shaughnessy to admit his team was better now than previously, for if Harvard had played them any sooner, there is no doubt that the only worth while part of the Windy Citymen's trip would have been their visit to the historic spots of Boston, which they made yesterday...
...Smart citymen are not without benefit from the Doran order. Well they know that they can share with wine-making husbandmen the "exceptions" under Prohibition. From many a company they can buy barrels of perfectly legal grape juice which, unless an act of God is carefully averted, will ferment in the city home to make a cup no less convivial than that quaffed on the farm. Urban winemakers were quick to interpret the Doran order as an added legal protection to their enterprise...
...Rhode Island the country districts are Republican, the city districts Democratic. Since the country existed before the city, the State Constitution was made by the countrymen, and the countrymen-Republicans have been jealously guarding the Constitution ever since, in order to preserve it from the ravages of the citymen-Democrats...
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