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...seedy and impoverished Socialist delegates the brilliant and wealthy young French Jew began to group around himself in something like intellectual hero-worship what has gradually become the Socialist bloc of some 100 Deputies who now not only follow him in the Chamber but even ape him. When he claps his hands they all clap their hands; when he is amused they are all amused ; when Léon Blum stalks to the tribune to hurl tor rents of sarcasm and scathing innuendo at the Cabinet - any Cabinet - they are all ecstatic, then uproarious with cheers. Temperamentally a destructive critic...
...night last week 1,500 Washingtonians settled themselves in Constitution Hall to hear a performance of Lakmé by the National Opera Association. When nothing seemed to happen after half an hour, the audience began to clap, stomp, demand explanations. Another fruitless hour passed. Then a plump little woman with disheveled white hair appeared before the curtain, waved a piece of paper, cried: "This is the most terrible thing that has ever happened in the history of music. I have a check to pay the musicians but they refuse to take it. Won't some one please endorse...
...Massachusetts and delegate to the Continental Congress; Artemas Ward, Commander-in-Chief of the Massachusetts troops and delegate to the Continental Congress; Samuel Langdon, President of Harvard; Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of Connecticut; James Bowdoin, President of the Constitutional Convention and Governor of Massachusetts; Thomas Hutchinson, Governor of Massachusetts; Thomas Clap, President of Yale; and four other delegates to the Continental Congress, Robert Treat Paine, William Ellery, Thomas Cushing, and James Otis
Finally the Deputies of France grew tired of M. Besson. By a vote of 335 to 28, they booted him out of office as a psychopathic case. Fat Inspector "Bouboule" was assigned to capture him. While the vote was being counted Besson fled. To a police brigadier waiting to clap hands on him, Besson snarled, "Do not touch me, I have my Parliamentary immunity. The vote, my friend, has not yet been counted." Out the back door he slipped again, and "Bouboule" found himself ignominiously suspended from the police department for one month...
...scraping, boiling and thoroughly sterilizing it. In case of cancer the cleansed piece of skull may at once be clamped back in place. In case of infection, the skull surgeon must wait days and weeks until all traces of infection within the skull cavity are eliminated. Then he can clap the cleansed lid upon the opening...