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...been filled at every performance. A group of businessmen salvaged the situation then but Manager Miller was unable to find 50 patrons who would organize to ensure the Zoo's future for five years. Unless the Cincinnati public shows a decided increase in interest Zoo opera is in peril of its life...
...came at his own request, if he did not care to answer questions, he should be excused." Later Senator Caraway, shamefaced, left-about-faced: "I do not sustain Bishop Cannon for snapping his fingers at the Committee. A witness who goes before the committee withdraws at his own peril...
...suddenly as it appeared, the Botanic peril vanished, leaving mystified students to retire to their habitual calm and wonder what a Botanic Garden was, after all. With the first bright rays of spring sunshine, however, the Botanic Gardens once more bloom securely on the front page of the morning paper, but this time in the tranquil atmosphere of compromise. The Harvard administration and the local gardening forces have settled their difficulties to their mutual satisfaction. The buds will sprout in peace this spring, for the war of the roses is over...
...When I am no longer here," said he on his deathbed, "If a military peril menaces France, call on Weygand and you can be tranquil...
...with what amounts to a fine of $176,000,000 as a penalty for diverting much water from Lake Michigan to flush its sewers. In accordance with a U. S. Supreme Court judgment last January that Chicago's water diversion illegally lowered the Great Lakes level to the peril of navigation. Special Master in Chancery Charles Evans Hughes presented to the court upon which he himself once sat a "sentence" for Chicago's violation. That the Supreme Court would approve the Hughes report seemed certain. He advised the Court to impose upon Chicago the following orders...