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...pagan squirm of a senile...
...employes, heads of departments, white collar men, scrambled for it. Sanders Wertheim threw another. Again a scramble. The ship was sidling from the pier. Until the gap of brown water grew too wide, he continued to throw silver, gold, the employes continued to scratch each other, punch, prod, and squirm to pick up his largesse...
...Ludendorff, but few others. Germany did not always pay homage to her husband. France had detested him also. He once rendered Tannhäuser at the Grand Opera in Paris. He had rehearsed 164 times. Mesdames, seigneurs, laced perfumed lords chitchatted, watched the composer's rotund drab figure squirm in his seat. Wagner's back itched. Princes? Metternich nodded, smiled, as from the orchestra swelled forth great chords, low symphony. Wagner sat tense-slumped down aghast, ashamed at whistles, catcalls, boos, hisses. Princess Metternich sobbed. Wagner went to Vienna, since Germany had exiled him. Again, Prince Metternich, please...
Temptation. Silk stockings at $10 a pair, lingerie at $25 to $75 a suit-Roumania's prohibitive tariff on de luxe articles forces these prices-tempt smugglers to squirm under boundary fences, elude border guards. In Bucharest complaints were loud last week...
There are bits of dialogue in both of Mr. Munro's plays that cut so close to home that one cannot but squirm for the human race. For these bits Beau-Strings is worth while. Perhaps with Jean Cadell it would seem amazingly important...