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...That President Hoover would bring Efficiency and Organization to the White House no one ever doubted. First he cleaned up the presidential desk, had removed the old green student's lamp, the ornate paper weights, the jar of smelling salts...
...Sudden excitement: "There was a crunching jar which shook the ship . . . with a sickening lurch...
...many people who boast to have gone to school with Mussolini, or to have shared a meal with him, or to have offered him a cigaret in some railway compartment. There are still too many people, who, in speaking of the "Duce," call him simply Benito. There are jar too many who assert to be on terms of intimacy with him. It is high time to declare before all the world that Benito does not exist any more. Today Mussolini must be known as the "Duce" and only as the "Duce." Nobody has any right to speak...
...outbreak of the late War, and demanded to be taken in front of Lord Dawson of Penn, the King's chief physician. She was handled tactfully, and when she realized that she was unable to see the great doctor she disclosed that she had brought up a jar containing a mixture of linseed, aromatic herbs and toad's blood which she had religiously stirred through the night in accordance with instructions left by her great-great-grandmother, who was said to be a wonderful herbalist and who was even credited, in her day, with performing miracles. On receiving an assurance...
Last week the monolith was being let down the mountain, inch by inch, with nervous precaution, lest a jolt or jar should crack the flawless stone. Pessimists predicted that any ship bearing it would be weighted down so much as to stick in the shallow Tiber. But optimists assumed that "Benito will find...