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...peacemaking expedition near the Chavantes' Serra do Roncador (Snoring Mountain). Ambushed, he whipped his gift-laden burro off into the jungle and escaped while the Indians chased and killed the burro. Manfully turning the other deep-tanned cheek, Mereiles kept right on wooing the Chavantes with gifts of cloth and aluminum pots dropped strategically along their forest trails. Eventually, tribesmen began slipping across to the white man's side of the River of Deaths, asking for gifts and gulping down all the food in sight. One day Chief Apoena himself put in an appearance and, before leaving, promised...
...grim pebbly faced Englishman, for whom an almost unnoticeable muscular movement is sufficient to turn a rapturous smile into a scowl of the utmost malevolence. Anouk is one of the newer French exports; her nose is larger than most, but otherwise she is cut from the whole cloth...
...half century ago, under flickering gaslight in London's Memorial Hall, a group of cloth-capped proletarians and tweed-bearing intellectuals founded the organization that was soon called the British Labor Party. At the next general elections the party boasted two Members of Parliament: Keir Hardie, a Scottish miner, and Richard Bell, a railwayman. Both would have looked out of place at the party's 49th annual conference in Margate last week. Klieg lights poured down on Prime Minister Attlee, six Cabinet Ministers and hundreds of well-dressed Labor Members of Parliament. Among them: seven noble Lords, including...
Just last Saturday a fellow from Eliot House looked up from the green cloth of the pool table, and discovered that his opponent was his own maid...
...take Tuesday, or Wednesday off?" said the Eliot man, tearing the cloth with his stick...