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...girls whom he brings to heel he calls weeds, adding sardonic "ha-has" to show the kind of dog he is. This garden he cultivates with money, which ha describes as "a most powerful fertiliser," apparently forgetting that money has no smell. One of his mermaid myrmidons flees and takes shelter on the noble bosom of a rival rich man. When they return from their honeymoon, the villain hounds her at a dinner so that she misses a good meal. After the act has run long enough the husband explains that he has known her scarlet past all along...
...little master of Thrums, of whom the story is told that once, wandering over to Bernard Shaw's table in the coffee room of his club and seeing the remarkable mess upon which Shaw was browsing, he asked in an alarmed and Scottish whisper: "Oh tell me, Shaw. Ha' ye eaten that, or are ye going to?"; and G. K. Chesterton, sitting at a table in Paddington Station "in a black sombrero and an enormous cloak, a cup of tea in one hand and a glass of port wine in the other, and looking, even in those utterly...
...Lingering soreness over the outcome of the coal strike settlement may have played some part. But the most plausible hypothesis is that of a political motive. He has already announced that if affairs at the White House should not proceed in accord with his standards, he would toss his ha into the presidential ring. Since he came into the governorship on a wave of reform sentiments, he may well have seized this opportunity to show the nation that his might is still on the side of right. But actions speak louder than words and prying eyes may look into Pennsylvania...
...Herbert Samuel, Nathan Sokolow, Oscar S. Straus, Baron Rothschild, Samuel Untermyer, Felix M. Warburg, Sigmund Freud, Simon Flexner, Julius Rosenwald, Irving Lehman, Julian W. Mack, Leon Trotzky, Max Lieberman, Adolph S. Ochs, Ahad Ha'am and Abram I. Elkus, Albert A. Michelson, Henrietta Szold, Jacques Loeb, Luigi Luzzati, Leopold Auer, Cyrus Adler, Herman Bernstein, Lee K. Frankel, A. I. Kook, David Belasco, Samuel Gompers, Israel Abrahams, Max Reinhardt, Joseph Rosenblatt, Sir Alfred Mond, Milton J. Rosenau, Jakob Wasserman, Jascha Heifitz, Maximilian Harden, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Otto Warburg, Jacob Epstein, Joseph H. Hertz...
...Ha, ha!"?Henry Ford to a reporter at Escanaba, Mich., when told that a magazine writer had stated plainly that Mr. Ford wished to become President...