Word: mending
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...years ago since the Dominion Senate was established and for most of that period a movement to "end or mend the Senate" has been an annual slogan of Canadian politics. But the aged Senators have been so tenacious of office that they have resisted every effort at reform; for, without their consent, nothing can be done to change the present constitution of that venerable house...
...Asked to Russia by Catherine the Great, he went there to gain new kudos in naval warfare and to blunder about, a Scottish bull in the china shop of Russian diplomacy. Then, one day, "a girl in her early teens came to his rooms and asked for garments to mend. When the porter had withdrawn, she 'began some earnest and indecent allurements of person.' Jones, 'advised her to beware of such a career, gave her a rouble in charity, and dismissed her.' She refused to go whereupon Jones 'took her gently by the hand...
...destroying the value of an expensive reference work. Copies of odd volumes, still less of stray pages, of the Britannica are not to be procured from the publishers, and cannot be picked up at the booksellers. To buy a new set, to reprint the missing pages, or even to mend the old pages if they should be returned and to rebind the volume, will be a serious expense, yet the Library must in some way repair the loss. Any course of action or any expression of opinion that will prevent such destruction in the future, we should be prompt...
...obviously has become, will pass from the boards without first being thoroughly drained of all apparent significance. Indeed, it is not altogether an unhappy outlook to suppose that lawyers and politicians will take the affair some-what to heart and that, consequently, some slight attempt will be made to mend both the ways of court procedure and political preferment. Doubtless, too, it will occur to some analyst that the case of Judge Thayer, laboring for years under the siress of one single controversy, and likewise the case of Madeiros, seeking to make a confession which would baffle the lawyers...
Perhaps some will think the Vagabond has become too lyrical, too little the student and too much the vagabond. He offers no excuse; he merely asks indulgence for one of his failings. He will try to mend his ways. But before he departs to try to become a student let him again suggest that if anyone would enjoy himself he could do worse than bend his steps toward Symphony Hall tonight since-Let us be chivalrous whatever be the cost-it is Radcliffe Night...