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Pounding his gavel, the President then declared the 21st and last session of the League of Nations closed. As the delegates hurried off, a lonely peacock-sole survivor of the League's once proud flock-slunk off to hide under a laurel bush...
...boys that they knew the rules. Whereupon they threw some more snowballs, including a few in my direction. I chose the biggest boy I could find (6 ft. 1 in.), hit him as hard as I could, was sworn at, slapped him again, and stood my ground until he slunk off to tell the principal on me. That ended snowballing in the Wrong Place. I had to go out next recess into the field and throw snowballs, just to show I could take...
...retreat-tattered, dusty men, walking, piled on horse-drawn carts, or riding bicycles which were sometimes without tires. Madly the Germans tried to exchange rum, margarine and other rations for civilian clothes. Fascist Rexists had waited three days at the railway station for a train that never came, then slunk off to hide as best they could. Said a German officer: "We do not like traitors; we merely use them...
...commercial manufacturers expropriated the designs of the Guild's hand-tooled products, mass-produced them cheaply. William Morris and the older Guildsmen died; the younger ones lost heart. Soon the model community died too. Arthur Cullen slunk back to the East End. World War I and the Depression did the rest...
...slunk instead a Roman eagle...