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...Constitution. The book includes three lectures before the University of Virginia Law School?Progress in Institutions, Progress in Industry, Progress in Foreign Relations. The life of civilized man in our day differs more from George Washington's than Washington's from that of Julius Caesar; Jefferson, in a desk drawer at Monticello, is said to have had the constitutions of 100 democracies?all failures: these statements preface Mr. Baker's explanation of the endurance of ours by reason of its lack of definiteness and detail and its early administration under leadership the character and traditions of which reached backward through...
...face in derision of her brother. "Monkey," she squealed, "you ole monkey!" Peter glowered, as he had seen them do in the movies. He knew how to avenge an insult. He went to his father's bureau, climbed up on a chair, took an automatic from the top drawer, shot his sister dead. Said he: "I am sorry, but I was awful...
Government, at the end of their report published last week, explained how they had, in co-operation with the British Launderers' Research Association, spent a year and ?12,600 trying (unsuccessfully) to evolve a non-crumbling, non-cracking, non-bending, -bursting, -popping, -vanishing shirt-and-drawer button...
...Veterans' Bureau-a mess in every drawer...
...your seat in the sixth row center, were to level an accusing finger at the dissolute brother and shout in stentorian indignation: "He it was, and not the poor but honest hero on whom he is trying to lay the blame, who took the missing papers from the lower drawer of the mahogany desk in the upper left hand corner of the stage just before the curtain fell on Act I, Scene...