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...Lest lapses should be chronic Mayhap this futile little rime...
While this super drastic measure has been germinating, Italian Royalists have grown constantly more suspicious and uneasy, lest the real purpose of concentrating supreme power in the Fascist Grand Council prove to be eventual abolition of the Throne...
...paper, which he files with his solicitors, which is not opened until Death necessitates a substitution. But William Bramwell Booth's aides-de-camp would have done with the Booth dynasty. Although William Bramwell Booth has two sons, Generals Wycliffe Booth and Bernard Booth, there was the fear lest he had chosen his daughter, General Katherine Booth, or his sister, Commander Evangeline Booth, as his successor. Despite the Army tradition of equality for its women workers, there is a feeling that no woman is capable of handling the multifarious activities of the organization, whose trust properties are estimated...
...darkness (presumably a cell), slept on straw, eaten only bread and water, played pathetically with a toy horse. This data formed the basis of a famous criminologist's charge that Caspar, a legitimate prince, had been criminally secreted and finally cast out by the House of Baden, lest he foil a court intrigue by claiming his rightful heritage. Controversy raged as to the truth of the charge or the likelihood of fraud. But the successive murders of astute criminologist and innocent boy himself left little room for doubt. Meanwhile Caspar, bandied conspicuously from one guardian to another-a double...
...greatest figures of the day. Most brilliant was Wilson, the man of vision; House his man of execution-for in most things the two worked as one, supplementing each other. True, House did not agree in several vital points: he advised against Wilson's attending the Conference (lest he thereby lose prestige, etc.); he urged the political wisdom of including Republican Root and Taft in the mission; he favored more compromise with Clemenceau, and later the acceptance of the Lodge reservations. But he bowed to the greater man's adamantine will, contented himself with the frequent occasions when...