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...dazzling rooms of the French Foreign Office, a score of distinguished statesmen sat around a highly polished table. In the background were the underlings, porfolios under arms, pince-nez perched on noses, sleek hair plastered flat on knowing heads, well-pressed clothes hanging immaculately from shoulders and hips...
...past two weeks, Germans throughout the length and breadth of Germany have taken an absorbing interest in their newspapers. Supercilious Frauen would adjust their thick pince-nez, glance at the headlines, shudder, read something else, return to the headlines, shudder again, put down the paper, go away, come back, look at the headline once more and again shudder, then plunge into the story...
...when he rose. Underwood of Alabama came and went, playing an unobtrusive part in the front row. Pat Harrison of Mississippi, the great denunciator, remained for the most part silent, save when he rose to deliver one of his thunderbolts across the House. Two rows further back, pince-nez on nose, sat the sententious Ashurst of Arizona, intent on periodically expressing himself with great deliberation, learning and politeness. King of Utah, very 'businesslike, examined every bill, the least important, with meticulous eye and, "reserving the right to object," would demand an explanation of it. Following this, he generally declined...
...first chapter, proceeds to the next for the second, and so on until the book may be discarded for another. His method has all the charm of stolen fruits, all the elusive precariousness that arises from the imminent possibility of the last copy being sold under his very pince-nez. He may be seen by the hundred in the second-hand bookshops of Fourth Avenue, the fantastic bookshops of Greenwich Village, the tradition-hallowed book shrines of Charing Cross Road, the ancient stalls along the Seine...
Laying down his cigar Mr. Lloyd George arose. Standing with his pince-nez poised in his left hand and describing himself as a " plain Euro-pean," the ex-Premier said he was a very old journalist-once he was associated with The Trumpet of Freedom, which had a circulation of 500 a week, " except on fair-days, when it reached 1,000." He went on to give thanks for his splendid welcome, stating that " no Britisher talks of Americans as foreigners " and that " the real founder of the British Empire as we know it was George Washington." He then outlined...