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...point of wildest merriment in the Scandals is reached when the comedian's right buttock absorbs several inches of bayonet wielded by a jealous Romeo. A moment later the balcony collapses, Juliet and all. The house goes...
Gibson, who tells the stories to the author, is nothing short of a modern Baron Munchausen, and has nothing to be jealous of as far as the latter is concerned. In brief his tales are obviously nothing but mild lies, or flights of a distorted imagination which Gibson lets run riot whenever the author seems to be on hand. Everything is covered in the course of the nine stories for which Gibson is responsible, from an inebriated Kentucky Colonel's affair with a "lady of the ensemble" to an H. G. Wells tale of a machine in which one sees...
...bill in 1911, the House of Lords was stripped of much of its past power. But British conservatism and love of tradition has not allowed the movement to carry away the form of society under which the nation has thrived for nine centuries. The English people have clung with jealous determination to their king, and have always resented any implications that their system of aristocracy might be behind the times...
...particular complaint the Tutoring Schools. Among a host of miscellaneous ideas, the repeated condemnation of those institutions stands out as one those institutions stands out as one fault on which most of the Senior were agreed. And the objections were not raised merely by onlookers who were jealous at seeing others get better marks with less effort, nor by men who regard these schools as inconsistent with the best college ethics; they seemed in many cases to come from men who had tried and had been disillusioned. Probably these victims had succeeded to getting through with the minimum of effort...
Hugo Stinnes: "Last year I made 80% profit on my concerns in the Ruhr. The French will probably be jealous...