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...When the firing recommenced, I saw blood and knew she had been wounded. We passed three passenger busses but they took no notice of our plight, preferring to get out of range of the shots. During all this time I urged my chauffeur with cries of 'Quicker, Gjanni!' Despite his wounds he drove like mad and got us to the hospital...
...boast that John Bull was the first paper to call Germans "Huns." He gave David Lloyd George his two campaign slogans "HANG THE KAISER!" and "MAKE THE HUN PAY!" No paper was more obliging with atrocity stories; none, when the War was over, quicker to fatten on anti-U. S. prejudice. MORE SWANK FROM THE YANKS was one of his favorite headlines. He was passionately addicted to just one brand of champagne, Pommery Nature, 1906, and bought up almost the entire vintage. Before each of his roaring speeches, for which he was paid enormous fees, Horatio Bottomley would gulp half...
...million hearts beat quicker there...
Quick to defend his new word for God, quicker to show new Turkey the fate of the oldfashioned, Kemal the Ghazi, "the Victorious One," pounced on Brusa, had 60 of the faithful arrested, ousted the Mufti (ecclesiastical judge) of the Ouglubjami mosque and decreed that henceforth God was Tanri...
...amounts of almost identical substances in a mixture, as fumaric and maleic acids. It can detect minute traces of poisonous adulterants of alcohol and ether, natural and synthetic vinegar, normal and abnormal urine. Professor Heyrovsky, who has been working with and refining the polarograph for a decade, declares it quicker, more sensitive, more accurate than any other method of analysis...