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...corner was ex-Minister of War André Maginot, defending his person against the assaults of the enemy. Wallops were given, wallops were taken. M. Maginot proved himself a true warrior, fighting in torn clothes, giving as good as he received. Somewhere there was a sound of torn linen, followed by a big bump ; le marquis de Ludre had been picked up by his collar, which had ungratefully given way with unfortunate results to the dignity and beauty of M. le marquis...
Yells of hate and screams of pain . . . the sound of torn linen...
...Committee and a few other guests. The table was spread the length of the inner library room. The blazing fire in the large marble fire-place, carved English oak walls, cases brilliant with gilded morocco bindings, high-backed, crimson-upholstered chairs borrowed from the Farnsworth House, silver, linen and candle-light, combined to give a setting more familiar in stories of English college life than in a twentieth century American University...
Prussian prisoners are provided with only one bath in four weeks; they are allowed a weekly ration of only 125 grams of meat; saccharine they are given for sugar; their linen is changed but fortnightly. All this is to economize. Berlin journals said it was short-sighted and that prisoners will leave jail more angry than when they entered...
...foreign charities suffer from the fact that a man is affected more through his senses than his imagination. Dives never saw Lazarus. Nor did he, clothed in purple and fine linen, have the imagination to conceive of the pain of nakedness and sores. The undergraduate buttoning his overcoat as he hurries to a ten o'clock, may buy a pencil from the old woman crouching on the corner, but the rush of his daily activities blinds him to the starving students of distant Europe who subsist solely on bowls of soup and a tremendous inspiration to learn. Could those poor...