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...every type of drawing paper on the market. Several years ago he chewed a big gob of drawing paper while working on a clay model and finally spat it out on the smooth tile floor. Some hours later he picked it up, discovered that the underside of his paper quid had acquired a beautiful fine grain. Faithful Nephew Caspar Maillol undertook to manufacture drawing paper for his uncle and friends by a like process. It is expensive, not on the public market. The only other drawing paper that Aristide Maillol finds fit to use is the very cheap soft yellow...
London & Paris. Did seamy-featured Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania negotiate in London with Prime Minister MacDonald and later in Paris with Premier Herriot a quid pro quo arrangement last week, whereby Britain and France will join the U. S. in refusing to recognize Manchukuo, in return for which the U. S. will join them in opposing Germany's demand for arms equality...
...gave him only four shillings a week pocket money, exacted his word of honor not to borrow. Honorable, he priced his own autograph at two bob (shillings), sold as many as he could, clipped his father's autographs out of letters, priced and sold them for a quid (pound), but his mother's autographs he kept. Smart again, the Prince while serving under a British naval captain chosen by Queen Mary, gave his superior officers the slip in California, dashed off for a night of frolic in Hollywood, later escaped from the Royal Navy altogether by contracting "chronic...
...Latin address in which Dr. Beck himself was unable to discover a single error. A brief quotation from this eloquent production will be sufficient to exhibit its character: 'Caveat emptor; corpus delicti; ex post facto; dies irae; e pluribus unum; usque ad nauseam; Ursa Major; sic semper tyrannis; quid pro quo; requiescat in pace'. Now this foolery was immensely taking in the day of it. . . The story was, on the whole, so good as showing how the man of the people could triumph over the crafts and subtleties of classical pundits that all Philistia wanted to believe...
Interesting, also, was the question of the Royal Dutch quid pro quo. The Royal Dutch statement, said that it had contributed its "experience" and certain unspecified patents under its control. There had been no previous mention of Royal Dutch patents comparable to the hydrogenation treatment. Meanwhile, however, Royal Dutch emphatically denied any general alliance with Standard and I. G. F., insisted that the shared patent implied no lessening of competition, no understandings on the division of the world-petroleum trade...