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...second-hand cigarettes could be ransomed by the inch, one inch of Melachrino equals a Sweet Caporal for instance, and similarly for matches. The collections of this bureau could be used by the Chemistry Department in experimenting for a new cattle-food, fuel, or building material. Oh, there are numberless ways to dispose of extinct cigarettes and worn-out matches. May I hope, and I know that I'm not alone, that one of them, or a better one, will be adopted? M. M. Atwater...
...good ship San Giorgio, pennants a flutter, hove to in the magnificently festooned harbor of Buenos-Aires. Guns boomed a welcoming salute. On the dock were the President of Argentina, his suite, hosts of Cabinet Ministers, statesmen and politicians, le Corps Diplomatique, numberless other dignitaries, all supported by a crowd estimated in hundreds of thousands. Italy's Crown Prince had come to pay an official visit to Argentina...
Withal, she gave generously to numberless charities, assisting young musicians and artists, encouraging tenement children in love of beauty by offering cash prizes for the best flower displays in their window-boxes, contributing substantially to the first aviation meet held in America (at Squantum, Mass...
...would be interesting to know just how the fines have been allocated. For there was probably not a single alleged error for which it is impossible to find plausible justification. Numberless expressions condemned by the purists of today can be found in the greatest classics written in the English language. After all, is it not a sign of intelligence rather than the reverse to use slang? For it is a well worn platitude that the slang of today is the speech of tomorrow; even the majestic Plato used slang in his deepest philosophical works because of its freshness and vividness...
...after the President's death as on any other week day, many editors-even editors of papers with national and international reputations-printed such extravagance as, the following: "It was probably the strangest silence in the city's history. From street, mill and skyscraper arose the numberless metallic sounds forming the ceaseless, surf-like roar of New York's monotone. But there was one entity of that roar which was almost missing, the sound of the human voice. . . . New York . . . spoke only when it had to,, and then for the most part in quiet, repressed monosyllables . . . This...