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Legally a man may marry only one woman but a corporation may marry as many other corporations as it can woo and win. The procedure in both cases is the same???soft words, moonlight, tentative kisses, polite talk of money. Last week the automobile industry knew that a number of companies were out holding hands in the moonlight but whether it was just a casual flirtation or a real engagement which would end in corporate wedlock no one could yet be sure...
...youth. There were the same choral festivities with students, soldiers, peasants and burghers, the same stout Valentine, who dies in the attempt to avenge his sister's honor. Marguerite spun her stint, disported herself with jewels and flowers, repulsed Faust, then yielded. The prison scene was the same???a repentant maiden condemned for infanticide, the tortured offender dragged relentlessly away by Mephistopheles, and Marguerite carried away high into the sky by white, white angels...
...Witwer, A. S. M. Hutchinson, Meredith Nicholson, for example, as compared with Tom Gill, Walter De Leon, Edwin Balmer and George Weston. Even this faint distinction is confused by the fact that many of these authors write for both magazines, and that what they write is invariably the same???"high-life" escapades, "low-life" escapades, apartment-house romances, love at first sight ?all manner of Tillie-the-Toiler skits in the popular, fiction-factory formulae, excellent literary trash and "what the public wants...
...expenses of the Post Office. Business may suddenly increase so that the Post Office has to handle much more mail than was anticipated. The income of the Post Office increases proportionately, but the amount of money it may expend in handling the increased business remains exactly the same???the amount which Congress had appropriated...