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...celebration has comprised a business meeting, literary exercises, and a dinner. Until about 1817, the business meeting took place in the college room of some member, and the dinner was provided at Warland's or Porter's where there was much toasting, and as the records say, "the society partook of an elegant repast which added energy to social entertainment, and ... smoaked awhile the Calumet of friendship...
...Noble and friendly nations frame the shores of the Mediterranean," he began, palpably aiming a compliment at Italy. "One of them partook of our recent terrible trials [the World War] and fought valorously and gloriously at our side for the defense and the triumph of a great cause. In the course of that struggle our community of cultural interests and sentiment affirmed itself in so striking a fashion that I am convinced the memory of it will always remain living and active in our hearts...
...better element" of the state, making "law-and-order"' his prime slogan. Esposito, his friend, once ran the Bella Napoli, was reputed in his day to be as monstrous a gangster as Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone. Senator Deneen stood as godfather for an Esposito child, partook of the Esposito baptismal feast, had himself photographed with the family. In March 1928, Esposito was shot down with 58 lead slugs in his head, according to Senator Deneen's count. The '"law-and-order" Senator attended the Esposito funeral, marched in the front rank...
...that looks rather like another violin. . . . Although he calls them music and they were designed for the walls of a music room, there is nowhere visible a melodic line. . . . Let us say that it is a fairly good uprooted modern musical chord slurred and fumbled by a maestro who partook of too many cocktails the previous night...
...church door grated. Out to surrender filed a sorry, coughing, spitting, weepy little crew of federals. Their rebel captors, pious, had thus avoided the desecration of bursting open a church. Entering the sacred edifice with loud, exultant hosannahs and cries of "Christ is King" they sat down and soon partook of the feast of the Eucharist. Untroubled by the transitory rebel occupation of Cocula, General Calles wired to President Emilio Portes Gil: "I have the honor to inform you that the traitor Escobar (rebel generalissimo) continues to flee without fighting, and we continue our advance...