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...second millionaire's butler. The two millionaires are engaged in a wholly ridiculous struggle for 50 shares of valuable stock. The fact that the story makes no sense at all adds immeasurably to its gaiety since all the characters seem well aware of this and at all times obey, with nonchalant enthusiasm, the most unlikely impulses. Funniest of them all is the second millionaire at whose elaborate country estate the story, such as it is, develops...
...time the western campaign might have had a different outcome. But Forrest's commander was General Braxton Bragg, whom Forrest soon distrusted, finally despised. One day he stamped into Bragg's tent, spoke thus: "You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them. And I will hold you personally responsible for any further indignities you try to inflict on me. You have threatened to arrest me for not obeying your orders promptly. I dare you to do it, and I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with...
...true, good Catholics, not Catholics of false name and Catholics who in the great family of the church wound the heart of Mother Church by their manner of speaking and acting and give such a bad example as to drive others away, there is only one indispensable means?to obey the Church and its head and to think with the Church and its head...
...Fascisti obey the Party and its Duce, think with it and him (as best they can). Further on in his letter Pope Pius accused Fascisti of "exposing youth to inspirations of hate and irreverence . . . rendering difficult and almost impossible the practice of religious duties . . . and . . . permitting public exhibitions of feminine athletics, the improprieties and inconveniences of which even pagans realized...
...suicide preceded Miss Compton's marriage . . . Dowling was an interlude . . . from which the actress emerged when it reached the ears of the man she really loved, causing a serious physical breakdown. Then she repented, but a mysteriously powerful element was already on the move. "Marry Dowling! "She must obey. Perhaps she will tell the story some day. "Who had informed against her? Detectives-possibly! . . . Telephone wires talk...