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...even if that or any other country was worth governing against the inclination of all its inhabitants." With typical wit, Fox made the same argument to Lord North in the House of Commons: "Lord Chatham [government leader when Canada was taken from the French], the King of Prussia, nay, Alexander the Great never gained more in one campaign than the noble Lord has lost. He has lost a whole continent." Colonel Isaac Barre, a fiery speaker whose face was disfigured at the Battle of Quebec, cried out: "Give us back our Colonies! You have lost America! It is your ignorance...
Stuart Peskoe '76 said Tuesday nigh that Dean Whitlock told him the Faculty Council would not take nay action on the CRR reform proposals until next fall, but encouraged the committee to hold the student referendum this spring...
...went and had tea with Henry James today...[He] fixed me with his staring blank eye--it is like a childs [sic] marble--and said "My dear Virginia, they tell me--they tell me--they tell me--that you--as indeed being your fathers daughter nay your grandfathers grandchild--the descendent I may say of a century--of a century--of quill pens and ink--ink--ink pots, yes, yes, yes, they tell me--ahm m m--that you, that you write in short." This went on in the public street, while we all waited, as farmers wait...
...Nay to Sen. Birch Bayh (D.-Ind.), who in a distant third-place finish, with 16 per cent of the vote, failed on his promise to press Rep. Morris K. Udall (D.-Ariz.) for second and proved that fashionably-late appearances at political cocktail parties like New Hampshire's aren't always so productive...
...Nay to both former Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris and Sargent Shriver, who, with 11 and 9 per cent of the Democratic ballots, respectively, became darkhorses, at best, for the nod in Madison Square Garden in July--Shriver's malapropos Biblical invocation that, "Like Lazarus, I've risen from the experts' graves," notwithstanding...