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...Holders. As feudal barons clung to their castles and patents of nobility, so the elect of Manhattan's social register cling to the boxes of the Metropolitan. This year Box 31 and Box 35 will be empty when the opening curtain rises upon Giaconda. Not seeing Mrs. Vanderbilt in 31, operagoers will recall the recent death of her son, Reginald C. Vanderbilt. And J. P. Morgan's absence from Box 35 will recall to many that Mrs. Morgan died last July...
When dirty weather gathers in this book, as it does continually, the seas thunder, spurt, hurl, burst, cascade, career and cannonade. Poops lurch, hatches groan, bulwarks drown, spars shiver, tumults surge, canvas flogs, human limpets cling to wreckage with bleeding nails, battered limbs, frozen hands, grim resolve. It is a fast-sailing tale of clipper days, stoutly and thoroughly rigged from stem to gudgeon, commanded by a cultured swashbuckler from Nova Scotia, a hammer-fisted, hell-bent "bluenose" skipper, with Nietzschean ethics, Vulcanic muscles, the passions of Poseidon, the luck of Lucifer. When his clipper Aphrodite goes down off Patagonia...
Tariff. To this issue Conservatives cling as burrs to a Canadian longhorn. Like New Englanders they see a menace in every nutmeg that enters free of duty. Liberals will count on the prosperity engendered by a recent bumper harvest to offset discontent at their lowered tariff schedule...
Lofty tone the Ledger already had, but did not cling to. Sound information the Curtis coffers tried to purchase by establishing a wide foreign service and high-priced U.S. correspondents. Independent politics were a little difficult to maintain, because Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis lunched at the Union League Club and had a reputation for highly respectable conservatism...
...advised by me, and cling...