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...almost unanimously called a crime de charité. Newsboys ran madly along the boulevards bawling out last-minute news of the proceedings. The kiosks were besieged by excited crouds loudly demanding the latest edition of the Intransigeant or some other afternoon newspaper. In the hot cafés, where garcons scurried hither and thither with the large trays groaning under the weight of amer-picons, bocks and grogs americains, men discussed the trial in an undertone, sad, strained expressions on their faces...
...first appearance in the U. S. After a voyage hither which, he said, made him feel like writing a "snown-storm symphony" because there was 'no more sun the whole time than a 20-franc piece," he had received pressmen in his hotel. . They had seen him disembark from his ice-blistered vessel in a black topcoat, orange shirt, orange muffler, monocle in right eye, but were somewhat abashed to find that his lounging costume consisted of a brown-and-rose pullover sweater, heavy gold bands on each wrist to support watch, bangles, etc., and five massive rings...
There is an ancient fable concerning a certain prophet, one who had married a wealthy widow, that he stood upon a plain and beckoned to an eminence before him, saying "Come to me, mountain." The mountain moved not. A second time he bade it: "Straightway come hither to me, sir mountain." And still the mountain came not. Thereupon, his patience unexhausted, he gathered up his burnoose, and with appropriate words, since the mountain would not come to him, he went to the mountain. All this happened many years ago, before there was a Congress...
...Faculty, alumni, undergraduates blended their voices in the outcry: "Stop it! Tear it down! Hush hall!" Moved, the Corporation ordered that the walls cease to rise. Committees met and met, discussing what was wise and proper to be done. Dr. James R. Angell, Yale's diplomatic chief executive, went hither and thither, explaining, dissuading...
...walls. Now and again one would miss his stroke. Now and again came a great clang as the ball crashed into the "tell-tale," or metal strip across the bottom of the front wall. For an hour or so the two men and the little white ball flashed hither and thither in the little red room. Then they desisted-and William Rand Jr. of Manhattan, congratulated his conqueror, R. Earl Fink of Brooklyn, upon winning the final match of the national fall amateur scratch squash tennis tournament. Outpaced at first, Fink had summoned whirlwind speed to break through Rand...