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...photographers of his day) ; mousetraps of his own design with sliding doors and "humane" compartments for drowning; boxes of notepaper in five different sizes for letters of reply ("Let me see," he would say, "for this letter I will use number three size; that should meet the case exactly"); clockwork bears, mice, frogs and bats. Stacked on the shelves were copies of the scores of pamphlets he loved to write, their titles ranging from Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter Writing to The Formulae of Plane Geometry and Suggestions as to the Best Method of Taking Votes where More...
...sitting in Mr. Papandreou's Cabinet, they were working in closest combination with the forces gathering to destroy it and him, him and his colleagues representative of everyday life in Greece . . . and when the fierce mountaineers had got well into the city, all those seven Communists resigned like clockwork, except one who was a little late but by running very hard under threat of death managed to keep his appointment...
Fortunately, the next issue went off like clockwork...
...household is a pleasant one, mostly devoted to babies. Except for the dining room, the entire ground floor of the comfortable eight-room house is a three-room nursery for the quints. The rest of the family live upstairs or in a made-over garage. The establishment runs like clockwork, the babies taking naps at staggered intervals to make them easier to care...
...Clockwork. In Chicago, Mrs. Frank Pahr bore a daughter at 5:10, another at 5:11, another at 5:12, called...