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Passing through Calais in a green suit, green hat and brown spats he was hailed by a crowd shouting "Vive Calmette! Vive Clemenceau! Vive Ignace!" He did not blink an eyelid...
...once to practice with his father and his elder brother, William J. (born in 1861). The citizens of Rochester generally agreed that young Charles was the least "impressive" of the three Mayos. Perhaps his appearance prejudiced, for he was not genial. No ruddy jester was he, with a nervous eyelid and a midwifian ribaldry to cheer the anxious parent in her distress. Far from it. William J. was a spot that way, but Charles was a doleful fellow, "with a face pulled out of tallow." That was a long time ago. Last year, at the Democratic Convention in Manhattan, Charles...
There were hearty handshakes, clammy as trout, warm as buns. Old friends wandered among the exhibits, admired the ultimate mode in funeral shoes, the suavest cuts in cemetery suitings, the 1926 coffins. They strolled off to dinner, exchanging views on the smoothing of an eyelid, the powdering of a nose, the arrangement of hands and what is the finest angle for a head...
...reserves which the Government is trying to retrieve (TIME, Nov. 3, 24) from Mr. Doheny contain probably as much as 200,000,000 barrels of oil. And it is just possible that the lawyers are right in their fear that so much as the winking of an official eyelid at the tanks would fatally prejudice their suit to recover...
...commonly expected of a good wife and a better politician. Among other things, the volume contains the following dialogue: Margot (ingratiatingly): "You are a greater man than Lloyd George or Winston Churchill." Benito Mussolini (swelling and smiling): "And who then is greater than I?" Margot (batting not an eyelid): "My husband...