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...more coffins yielded not a sou. The eighth disclosed the body of a recently deceased War veteran; he mutilated a cold clammy hand in trying to snatch the rings from its fingers...
...skill of Benes in extracting millions from a country whence Andrew Mellon cannot coax a sou...
...works specified by M. Vigoroux as spurious include 1) A ceramic piece attributed to Lucca della Robbia, 15th Century Florentine sculptor, sold to an official of the Metropolitan for $3,000, and "not worth a sou." (The Metropolitan contains only one della Robbia?a terra cotta bas-relief entitled Prudence, bought in 1921 under the bequest of Joseph Pulitzer.) 2) A 15th Century statue of St. Paul, sold to Assistant Curator Breck, of the Metropolitan, for $3,000. 3) A bas-relief group, Les Lansquenets (a former type of German footsoldier; the figures were called "devils" by the people...
...Germany and France have already become associated in a movement of protest and sympathy, and most of the continental universities have expressed themselves in great public meeting. Those who care to inform themselves as to the attitude of thoughtful Europeans should read Edmond Rostand's stirring poem, "Le sou des Boers...
...betting at long odds. A proposal was made by some maidenly member of the Vassar Central Republican Campaign Committee that, on the day before the election, polls should be opened, and a special election of their own should be held; a small election, one petite election pour un sou as it were, but still one that would give the college an opportunity to show the great outside world just where it stood on the momentous question...