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...wife, Mrs. Aldrich's treatment of her guests. He scolds about the recurrent miseries of official banquets. "It is an hour and a half of nerve-wrecking clamor, of intolerable clattering and clashing of knives and forks and plates, of shrieking and shouting commonplaces at one's elbow-mates . . . and when there is a band-and there usually is-the pandemonium is complete, and there is nothing to approach it but hell on a Sunday night." He begins to remember imagined slights. He had met the young Boer War correspondent, Winston Churchill, could not get a word...
Back to clothes: everybody was wearing those lovely crinkly grey fiannel trousers effects, and I saw oodles of the smart new leather elbow patches. I suppose those boys have to bend their elbows...
...Last week's celebration, coming at a time distinctly wanting in peace, gave Japan's men of influence occasion to consider the Japanese Empire carefully. They knew it as a sum total of many factors: a set of islands where 70,000,000 people live almost literally elbow to elbow; a low standard of living; the third biggest Navy in the world; a ragged but dogged Army (1,125,000 men in the field, 6,000,000 trained, partly trained and untrained eligibles to draw upon); an economy of trade which according to all the rules ought...
...make a six-and-a-half-inch gash in his upper left arm. Dr. Head, a robust, 42-year-old neurologist, was no masochist. He wanted to learn the connection between nerves and pain. The surgeon severed two nerves in Dr. Head's arm, flexed it at the elbow, put it up in a splint, and left his hand free for testing...
...standing in the street, while 75 stood on the sidewalk. Then, with a criticism of Republicans in Congress, and a note of praise for Senator McNary, his Republican rival, Henry Wallace returned to his automobile and set out for New Ulm, Sleepy Eye, Olivia, Moose Lake, Crookston, Fergus Falls, Elbow Lake and other small towns in the farm belt...