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...Malcolm Delevingne, "you can reply to me by an appeal to diplomacy or you can reply by an appeal to arms. China will welcome your attack. . . . I hereby publicly assume the responsibility for declaring that China will soon tear up the unequal treaties forced on her. . . . I can officially inform the committee that the time when China will tolerate foreign interference in her internal affairs is nearing...
Again will the latter gentleman kindly inform me who has been and who is advocating that "revered word is meant those narrow, dogmatic views which condemn those who do not conform, which are founded on and thrive on superstition fear and ignorance, and the devotees of which feel it their duty to show their piety by publicly kow-towing at the behest of some dervish who prates, the while about glory, salvation...
...glad I don't like oysters," said the famous young lady, "because, if I did, I'd eat 'em and I hate 'em." The Copley Players' latest offering, entitled "The Oyster" as the subway billboards inform all and sundry, leaves one in the same frame of mind. Here are hundreds of people in the audience whooping away for dear life at a certain play that leaves this reviewer cold; the awful possibility that he might see a certain amount of humor in it and so be tempted to see other plays of the same kind has given him no peace...
...used that those who desire them should set their Albums as soon as it is possible, as it is necessary for the Album Committee to inform the printer as to how many are required...
Seasoned travelers continued serene and unstirred when informed last week that the Municipal Council of Paris has at length sanctioned an increase of 25% in Parisian daytime taxi fares and has stepped up the night rates by 150%. The travelers reflected: 1) That the day rates are so ridiculously low that to increase them by one-fourth will not seriously inconvenience foreigners. 2) That the night rates have long ago become a mockery, the drivers simply holding out for what they can get. Early in the evening they often inform prospective fares that they are on the way to their...