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...middle-aged bachelor, petulant and self-centered, is transformed by the appeal of his erring married sister into a chivalrous protector. But other interested parties inform him that he is being fleeced. Immediately all his charitable feelings turn to hate...
...becomes my duty to inform Your Majesty that as Prime Minister I shall proceed to effect a revision of the Constitution which will secure the full and complete independence of Egypt...
...Virginia government, the Gazette was slow in taking public notice of the Revolution. On an inside page of the issue dated May 13, 1775, readers learned of "skirmishes" in New England which had taken place April 19. One despatch, unsigned, read: "I have taken up my pen to inform you, that last night, at about eleven o'clock, 1,000 British troops fired upon the provincials. . . . Yesterday produced a scene the most shocking New England has ever beheld. . . . The first advice we had was about 8 o'clock in the morning, when it was reported that the troops had fired...
...with the most imperialistic and domineering of the civil officials. As to India itself, the real India, the great India of the past and the present, with its history and its civilization, he seems to have cared nothing for this, and to have taken no pains to inform himself about it. As to the Indian people, he seems never to have cared to associate or to become acquainted with any but the lowest. Unless we make these assumptions, it seems impossible to account for the facts that in his writings he gives almost no portrayal of or allusion to anything...
...Hague where fiery Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden seemed intent on bending or breaking the Young Plan. In making up his mind whether to back Battler Snowden to the limit the Prime Minister must know the attitude of the fiscal powers in Manhattan and London. None could inform him better than Tycoons Lamont and Norman. After hearing their views Mr. MacDonald flew back to Lossiemouth, cogitated through the night, finally issued a startling manifestation in support of Chancellor Snowden's demand that the Empire receive a larger slice of the reparations "sponge cake...