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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tale-telling out of school is fun for the listeners. One night last week millions of Britons, including His Majesty George V, tuned in on the radio stations and had fun. They listened for 45 minutes to such tattling as has probably never before been indulged in by a British statesman of first rank. They heard hot off the scathing, contemptuous tongue of Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden the inside story of The Hague Reparations Conference. Assumedly the King-Emperor was de- lighted, for he soon "commanded" Mr. & Mrs. Snowden to come to him at Sandringham, received them...
...told me you had a very kind heart,' said poor Jaspar, 'but we have never met a man like...
...than affluent and William's boyhood allowance consisted of first one and later two shillings per week. At the age of 19, he entered his father's store, where one of his first duties was the cutting up of long bars of soap. At that time, the soapmaker was never the soap-seller. Manufacturers sent out soap-bars which whole- salers made into cakes and stamped with their own names. After some years in his father's business, William Lever decided that the possibilities of expansion were too limited, and, with his brother, James D'Arcy Lever, became a maker...
Bonaparte once said to a musician: "There is only one musical instrument I know that never gets out of tune?that is the drum...
...costly toll bridge which lands them right at the very door of the place. A committee of Congressmen went to Hidalgo County and studied the technique of Baker, Creager & Co., when they were ready to remark: 'Well, this is all too fancy for us. Philadelphia at its best was never like this...