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...pressed a switch and lo! The Light was found (Today you would be fined ?100). Water and Gas obeyed the humblest hand, Though greedy Tories still controlled the land. Coal, too, almost like water, used to flow, A commonplace and not a curio. Coal, Chaos, was as plentiful as hay: We had so much we sent the stuff away! The Railways, not less rapid than they are, But much more regular, went just as far. The Ships, with small assistance from the State, Sailed round the Planet and returned with Freight . . . Either by Accident this isle was blessed Or there...
...direction was indicated by Monroe in 1823 when he proclaimed that the American continents were not "subjects for future colonization." It was a misconception to consider the Monroe Doctrine, which challenged all the nations of Europe, a doctrine of isolation. The policy expanded again with John Hay's "Open Door" in China. Under Theodore Roosevelt, it landed the U.S. in the middle of the world stage. It reached a climax in 1917 when Woodrow Wilson, in words which it became fashionable to sneer at in the '30s, said...
...boat captain and a young woman had collapsed during chiropractic treatment -one for headaches, the other for hay fever. They were taken, unconscious, to the hospital at the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, died there a few hours later. The hospital doctors were puzzled: there were no signs of injury to the spine (the usual target of a chiropractor's manipulations), no clues to the cause of death. Autopsies on the patients' brains showed that the cerebellums were badly bruised and full of blood clots...
...story of a crooner (Lee Bowman) who rises too fast in the world, and of what the rise does to his wife (Susan Hay ward). The wife serves him well and happily, so long as he is handling cowboy ballads on 6 a.m. radio dates. But once he comes into that lustrous realm in which appearances and contacts and discreet intrigue count for so much, a Perfect Secretary (Marsha Hunt) takes over more & more of the spadework. She even decorates the crooner's new apartment, and selects gifts for his wife. The wife, robbed of every reason to believe...
Bridling at the censorship, the Workshop cited historical precedent in Maud Adams 1911 "Lady Godiva" jaunt through Harvard Yard, and trotted out plans for construction of a hay-lined dressing room...