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harangued the flat-foot politician...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: END QUOTE | 4/24/1940 | See Source »

Then a young man (he was neither an old man, nor an international banker, nor a preacher, nor an old lady, nor yet an airplane manufacturer, nor an exporter to Japan, nor a Versailles potentate, nor one of Chamberlain's many friends, nor a news-paper reader, nor a flat-foot politicians, nor an undertaker) said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: END QUOTE | 4/24/1940 | See Source »

...formal affair without Hubby, called in her children for a conference on the matter. The young-ones ransacked the toys of their youth to bring forth only a decrepit wool-stuffed policeman-doll. Mrs. Angell smoothed its uniform somewhat but couldn't do anything about the runs in the flat-foot's stockings. Nevertheless she sallied forth in full evening dress with the sergeant in her arms. The butler was visibly astonished but imagined that there was to be a gay old time in the town that night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 2/28/1934 | See Source »

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