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...agree whether it actually was to be a skyscraper, a museum, a prison or what. Skeptics still cocked a wary eye at the construction, averred that by the time it was completed the foundations might well give way and that the whole thing might be nothing but a heap of Romains remains. Sympathizers still stoutly declared it to be one of the burgeoning wonders of the literary world. Whatever it was to become, however, spectators of all camps still found it worth watching...
...camps, did well. In 1934 Partner O'Neil got involved in the War Department supply scandals but Partner Hamilton was not entangled. In politics Hamilton started at the bottom as a precinct captain, for two reasons worked up rapidly: 1) An urge to get on top of the heap, which drives him to work incessantly-he made a house-to-house canvass on foot to win his first election as probate judge in 1920. 2) Adoption by a potent political father, David W. Mulvane, late boss of Kansas. In 1924 Hamilton,' with Mulvane's backing, was elected...
Peace came as a letdown for Smuts. For a while he was simply an embittered veteran. Then the Liberals came into office in England and gave back self-government to the Boers, only four years after the war ended. Smuts was struck all of a heap. "Has such a miracle of trust and magnanimity ever happened before? Only people like the English could do it. They may make mistakes, but they're a big people." Smuts straightway buried the hatchet, tried to get his brother-Boers to do likewise. When he took office under Botha, who became Prime Minister...
...vote against the bourgeois Radical Socialist Party which has dominated the Chamber since 1895, and which most Frenchmen feel was responsible for the Stavisky Case and the black eye that scandal gave their country. For years the technique of French Socialists has been to dodge the responsibility of government, heap scorn on those who must accept...
...takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home...