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...Wickham Steed, onetime Foreign Editor of The Times, contributed an article to the Review of Reviews (London). In his article, he reproduced a letter, published in The Times in 1919, signed by "F. S. T." The argument of this letter was that the wealthy classes should set an example to the Nation by imposing upon themselves a capital levy. It continued...
...said Mr. Steed, "is Premier Stanley Baldwin and it is well known that he did impose a levy upon himself and that the Treasury acknowledged receipt of ?150,000 of the War loan for cancellation." His example, however, only inspired others to the amount of ?350,000, a total...
...course Washington chuckled. One of the Senatorial wits-from the press reports, one could gauge rather accurately that he was Senator Caraway-suggested that this jiggling steed should be called Foreign Policy, because it had neither head nor tail. Another Democrat declared on the floor of the House: "I shall not be surprised if soon it will be heralded to the people that the President is riding this wooden horse for the purpose of cutting down the oat bill at the White House stable...
...easier to order Raisuli's removal than to accomplish it, however. No mule and no prancing Arab steed could be found strong enough to support his grotesque corpulence and a special litter had to be constructed to bear his great weight. A strange cavalcade left Tazreut. First, marched 20 fierce Riffian guards, armed hip and thigh. Second, came a huge, ill-fashioned sedan chair, supported at each corner by a pole and carried by 16 husky men. Inside the sedan box was Raisuli, reclining on soft carpets and magnificent cushions. Over his paunchy, shapeless face he wore a turban...
...other hand, few men as brilliant and vivacious as Wickham Steed are not also imaginative...