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...possibilities for the smart faculty member with a little business sense were innumerable. Although no professors are to be found who will confess to taking advantage of this bounty, it is assumed that their wives were quick to see the opportunities which lay in such a transaction. With a little judicious diluting of the consomme, a stretching of the buttered parsnips, and a stringing out of the beans a supper for two could be made into an attractive if limited supper for four. Net profit, $1.00. Again, if still larger game were sought, a simple, yet filling picnic of peanut...
...Somoza. He returned and told Sandino that he was to be shot in accordance with superior orders. Sandino, Estrada and Umanzor [his two favorite generals] were then taken to a place where a grave had been dug some days before. They were tortured in an effort to make them confess that they were planning a revolution and, when they naturally refused to confess a thing of which they were not guilty, they were murdered by a volley of machine gun bullets. . . . Shortly afterward, another group of guardsmen attacked the home of Sofonias Salvatierra, Minister of Agriculture, and killed Socrates Sandino...
...sweet love affairs, a murder, no end of fist-fights, and much mad dashing about, is fairly usual; but to wind it all up by shooting a gun which starts an earthquake which hits the lady villain on the head with a multitude of bricks and induces her to confess her sins, thereby saving the lives of all the nice people, is a stroke of sheer genius. Besides that, Jack Oakie and Spencer Tracy say a lot of funny things...
...confess that I did not expect that the new British tariff system would work but I am bound to admit that it is producing remarkable results. . . . Three years ago Great Britain had dropped to third place in the list of exporting countries, but today she again stands first...
...story. Consequently Graves not only subtracted some 250,000 words, cutting the book down to about half its size, but he added some incidents and, in one case, a whole chapter. Principal interpolation was a meeting between David and Emily, just after Dora's death, in which they confess their love, spend the night together. Reviser Paine omitted this chapter, as well as Emily's subsequent suicide, changed the final paragraphs of Graves's telescoped ending to a feebler transcription of his own. But even with these changes and without Graves's explanatory, controversial foreword, this...