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Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: a friendless high-tariff Democrat who has long occupied himself with legislative trifles; a conservative, not over-diligent Senator whose only influence upon national matters is his own vote. His term expires March...
...been ratified unanimously, but 30 of these 31 conventions have been adopted by one or more nations and are binding upon the ratifiers. The 31st and completely unratified draft convention was adopted by the Conference two years ago, sought to create better working conditions for white-collar workers, proverbially friendless and unrepresented in the world's parliaments...
...fate of a Last Survivor, the lone lingering member of a species. Mateless, childless, friendless, he can only sit and brood upon the fate that has left him in a world whence all his kind has vanished. Such a bitter fate is that of the heath-cock of Martha's Vineyard. Once his kind filled the woods from Maine to Virginia, but hunters' guns reduced their numbers to a single flock which found refuge on Martha's Vineyard. Forest fires decimated the flock until in 1927 there remained only eleven heath cocks, two heath hens. Next year...
...traveled extensively, lived several years in the Orient. Wherever he went, he was welcome only once: former hosts cut him on the street after they had appeared in his pages. An old man before his time, friendless, lonely, he died in the arms of the only person he had ever cared for, his old mistress Lizzie...
...cases of men who have failed at Harvard because they did not orient themselves in its rather complex existence, and then to hope that this tea dance will eradicate that evil. But it should do something to create a more aimiable and friendly atmosphere for the occasional isolated and friendless freshman...