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...short-term unloading of its own upon the Bank of France, thus getting funds with which to appear to balance the budget without having, to ask the Chamber to vote higher taxes. By this fascinating maneuver the State also avoids another long-term Government bond issue which would badly clog the Paris bond market. "It's clever," Frenchmen agreed, "but is it inflation...
...these manifestations were simply the performance of a master journalist-showman run away with by his own technique. Strangely mingled in Hearst were patriotism, the sense of power and a desire to sell newspapers, with the last dominant. Hearst always loved to entertain, with his own stories, songs, guitar, clog-dancing as well as lavish parties. His newspaper formula added Money, Sex and Patriotism to the old imperial adage about Bread and Circuses. In 1896 he plumped for Bryan and free silver. After the Spanish war he discovered he had gone too far in his formulistic excoriation of President McKinley...
...exquisites got into warm baths before they cut theirs. The warm water was to prevent the final chill of death. The Greeks drank hemlock. Chinese spite their neighbors by drowning themselves in the neighbors' wells. Other Chinese methods: over-smoking opium, sucking in a sheet of gold leaf to clog the windpipe...
...when the football teams of more than one Eastern university have become temporary professionals in "charity matches", when the negro who featured in the finding of the Lindbergh baby is promptly snapped up to clog on the vaudeville stage to the tune of $300 a week, when any institution or individual whose name is at all well known hastens to cash in on that notoriety, it is not surprising to learn that the tentacles of commercialism have reached out towards Harvard's Commencement activities. With a sense of mild wonder mingled with relief the CRIMSON learns from the chairman...
...colleague of Dr. Carrel, has worked out age tables for wound healing. The reason that the young heal and grow more quickly than the old is that as soon as one begins to live, he begins to kill himself. All living cells give off waste products which, unless removed, clog continued growth. The older a person is. the greater the clogging. If it were possible to replace all of a person's old and decrepit cells by young ones, and if it were possible to cleanse every drop of blood, lymph and other liquid in his body, then...