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...Canada, Mexico and Cuba. Only three persons know what Angostura is made of, and a Wuppermann is not one of them. Mr. Alfredo Galo Siegert of Trinidad, grandson of the first man ever to brew Angostura, shares his secret only with a brother and a brother-in-law. Lest something happen to ail three at once, a copy of the formula is locked in a bank vault in Trinidad, another in a vault in London...
...before yesterday's questionnaire once more reminded the authorities of Harvard that the undergraduate body is not sexless. Fearing lest the outside world should discover that Harvard students are neither eunuchs nor impotent, the authorities have raised their hands in horror, and according to reports, are prepared to bring them down with a bang...
...claim that such action makes a possible Japanese attack probable. While there is some truth in their fears, the effect on the whole would be to withdraw the United States from the tangled intrigues of Oriental diplomacy, at once lessening the chance of war. As for the moral trembling lest any other green-eyed dragon should possess herself of these territories, there is the material satisfaction that if they attempted to do so, the United States would not have to go to war on the other side of the Pacific about the situation. Japanese capital will undoubtedly develop Philippine markets...
...object!). Let me assure you that for a graduate Chaucer is, or should be, also primarily a poet, as he is, or should be, for the professors, congressmen, the janitor of the building, etc. If anything, he should be more poet to the graduates, the teachers-to-be, lest they later succumb to the temptation to treat him as a unit in an historical series or even merely as something to be decently garlanded with so-called facts. The objection, as I see it, is a deep one, and not to be done away with by the reorganization...
...with toy balloons on long strings to frighten the starlings from the ledges. The starlings cheeped derisively. In despair he wrote the Department of Agriculture.* Last week the Department suggested that the only remedy might be to use deadly hydrocyanic acid gas-a ticklish job necessitating careful preparations lest Congressmen and bystanders fall dead. Architect Lynn then persuaded the Department's Biological Survey officially to classify the starlings as pests. It is the duty of the Survey to destroy pests. So a gas attack on the Capitol was planned for some midnight this week...