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...LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY-A crisp and pliant comedy of polite larceny among the English nobility...
...announced a fiscal program of its own based upon rigorous Government economies and a heavy screwing down of the present tax machinery upon tax-dodgers. Critics opined that if the Cartel had actually been brought into line behind such a program, the present. Government would have to become exceedingly pliant toward the wishes of the Cartellists if it could continue to exist...
...headed onetime workman. As might many another self-made man, he admits that his subordinates have a monopoly of whatever technical training there is in the establishment. On the basis of their technical training, many pre-revolution bourgeosie, or even nobles, receive good salaries*-if they are adaptable and pliant to the Soviet...
...call to decide for your city between John F. Hylan, clean and honest servant of your interest and yours alone, whose record of deeds contains no blemish, and "Little Jimmie Walker, slick and pliant politician, Broadway butterfly; advocate in public of mothers' pensions and paid in private for easing the sale of putrid and dis- eased meat to those mothers...
...have practiced all day until their fingers are fagots of bruised nerves and the sound of their instrument echoes as hollowly to their ears as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal, dream, when asleep, of the perfect piano. They seat themselves before a suave and sable instrument that is pliant to their will as none that mortal hands have ever fingered; it speaks for them with a mighty organ voice; notes, at the command of their subconscious will, sing with the pomp of trumpets or the tenderness of fiddles, yet it is no pipe organ that they play...