Word: handed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...really responsible for the inefficiency of the force. If an over-zealous officer arrests a man who is influential in his ward, he is certain to get into trouble; if he makes too many arrests, he becomes disliked by the other policemen and by the sergeant. On the other hand, if he neglects his duties, he gets the favor of the ward politician and promotion follows. Until the police department is taken out of politics, we cannot expect a truly efficient force...
...events of the night before. He discovers to his horror that he has brought home, besides various articles of female apparel, an old schoolmate as a bed-fellow, who is suffering from the effects of the same hilarity. The wife of the bourgeois enters, newspaper in hand, and reads about the gruesome murder of a coal-heaver's daughter which has been committed in the rue de Lourcine. The two listeners find coal upon their hands, and all the evidence points to their having committed the crime during hours of which they remember nothing. Panic-stricken, they proceed to drown...
...soldier. But the young man, who has wonderful dramatic genius, escapes from the army, deceives his family, deludes his grandfather, and by a clever trick takes his father's place on the stage of the Theatre Francais. After an outburst of fury, he is forgiven and awarded the hand of his cousin...
...interesting associations are attached. One is Antonio de Solis's "Varias poesias sagradas y profanas," Madrid, 1716, with the autograph and bookplate of the poet Southey; the other, Leigh Hunt's copy of Troya's "Del Veltro allegorico di Dante," Firenze, 1826, with manuscript marginal annotations in Hunt's hand. His autograph, from some other source, has been pasted on the title-page. A miniature edition of Solis's "Historia de la Conquista de Mejico," Paris, 1826, in three volumes, is also included in Mrs. Smith's gift...
...upholding Adam Smith's view that war is waste, which is contrary to the popular view. The idea that a battleship is a godsend to the community where it is built, because it employs so many men was shown to have no relation to the economic question in hand. The employment of too many soldiers is also a great evil, because it prevents these men from being productive laborers and makes them consumers of public money. By the example of the Civil, Boer, Crimean, and Napoleonic Wars, conditions are proved to be at least as bad, if not worse, after...