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...HOWARD OF NEBRASKA (who afterwards voted in favor of the bill) : "To vote for this bill will be to give the recognition of legitimacy to a legislative bastard, conceived in the fertile brain of a professional profiteering patriot, and accouched on a damask divan in the gold room in the house of Morgan & Co., attended by a galaxy of accoucheurs appointed by Treasury Secretary Mellon and approved by the President of the United States...
...annees out passe et m'ont fait home. Deja jai Coeur et monde, et me voice enfin divan I'll reeve. Mais jen'y trouve plus que tristesse et amour disenchantment...
...years. Amid the Freshmen ranks came the Navy Club, a club which existed during the first of this century. The thirty laziest men in the class belonged and the most supremely lazy was high admiral. In the parade this favored individual was borne on a red divan on a dray...
...Common Marriage" is a thoughtful character study and story of that not uncommon species of man who fancies himself in love with a pretty woman because he takes pleasure in the faint evasive perfume of her hair, in being on the same divan with her, in leaning against the same cushions, and in watching her quick breathing,-who goes a step farther and becomes engaged to her, recognizing his mistake, yet incapable of sufficient will-power and courage to make a clean breast of it and effectually to relieve the entanglement,-who takes the final step and becomes her husband...
...century, and consisted of the thirty laziest men in the class, of which the most supremely lazy was high admiral. About a dozen men dressed as sailors kept the memory of the club alive, and Mr. J. B. Blake '87, dressed in Admiral's uniform, lay on a red divan on a dray, - the laziest of the sluggards...