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...told Dr. Klein to cable his reports, but other consuls found he was gaining prestige thereby, and began to cable, too, reports which they had been accustomed to send in haphazard, and often a season or two late. . . . To close the chapter, Dr. Klein was promoted in 1921 to his present post: Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. There over 300 reports reach him daily; and out to U. S. businessmen go a daily average of 3,000 replies to economic questions. Says Dr. Klein: "We have a rule that a reply?not necessarily complete?must...
Perhaps the most delightful feature of M. Maurois' style is his refreshing use of similes. For a haphazard example: "Just as occupants of a motorcar, seeing themselves driven to certain disaster by a drunken driver, from a sentiment of honour do not intervene to mitigate his speed so Renaudin's inveterate determination and Monsieur Pascal's grandiloquence led the owner and the hands to a collision which both feared...
...course, club tables are the habit of mankind, or was the habit till vast numbers of people took to living in flats or lodges and taking their meals rather at haphazard. Nevertheless, many of the private clubs, the Harvard Union for considerable periods, and private combinations outside of the college commons have always existed. Theodore Roosevelt, for instance, was a member of a dining club in a private house, throughout his college life, and friendships there made seem to have outlasted his total life...
Shrewd, these learned men did not put on their togas haphazard, but allowed themselves to be draped by an expert. He, deft, threw one end of the toga over their left shoulder, allowing the point to hang down in front. The major remainder of the toga was then wound about the body, toward the right, and finally disposed in graceful folds about the right arm. Soon, like so many Caesars, the good doctors strode forth, paraded through Mantua, and grouped majestically while a statue of Virgil, famed Mantuan* was unveiled...
Shanghai. Martial Law was declared in the Chinese city, last week, by Chinese officers adherent to Chiang Kai-shek (see above). Their soldiers nabbed haphazard and executed approximately 100 "Reds"; and concurrently the intermittent "general strike" seemed to be petering out, with all but a few thousand factory hands back at work...