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...special sort of Tammany delegate, left nothing to chance, however, and made a statement to the press. It was after a visit paid by Mrs. Smith to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson at the Jesse Holman Joneses'. Said Mrs. Gibson, whose sister, as everyone knows, is Lady Astor: "You needn't worry about Mrs. Smith in the White House or anywhere else. "That's a great little lady. She has perfect poise, gentleness, kindliness of heart, all the really fine qualities which we women want in the White House...
...letter. It read: 'We have your baby. It will take $3,333.33. She is all right, but last night was cold. We don't know what will happen this cold weather. Be ready with the money when we call you. This is not my writing, so you needn't try to trace me.' The police had failed to find the kidnapers of our two-year-old daughter, so we answered the letter, were soon informed by a telegram to look for a Negro boy with a broom handle on a certain street corner. I looked...
...price. The French government is now erecting barracks for French students in the south of Paris and it is possible that some of them will be available for foreign students in the summer. Certainly there is an ever increasing number of American students in Paris every summer so one needn't be afraid of the stories that are told about high prices. As more students are exchanged between the American and French universities, so better feeling will prevail between the two countries. You know even though the French often try to overcharge Americans they usually prefer them to English...
...feudal autocrat because he espoused the Open Shop; the week before he issued a manifesto against the Charles Garland Fund for being devoted to radical causes; the week before that he warned the public that labor banks were no solution of the Labor problem and that Capitalists needn't think the banks meant the abrogation of the right to strike. This week he is speaking on a familiar theme. For the eighth or ninth time he delivered his famous philippic against Soviet Russia at the National Civic Federation Convention. He has given it at every Labor Convention since...
...queried whether the ejaculating narrative with parentheses addressed to the hearer, is an improvement to a story. Is it not as well to avoid an absolute imitation of a conversation even when one is reporting it? Do such expressions as "and I-well, I rather liked her-you needn't smile, I didn't care much about her" or "and dignified!-by George ! I've never seen anything like it" help the flow of the narrative any ? This is merely a suggestion, not an implication that the use of the expressions in this story is a serious injury...