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This adder sting touched off Sir Austen Chamberlain, be-monocled, correct and supremely supercilious Peace Prizeman (1926), whilom British Foreign Minister. Wagging a bony forefinger at the Chancellor he cried in shocked protest: "That remark in its tone and temper stands alone in the records of the House! The Right Honorable Gentleman is always ready to impute motives of such a character to the opposition and he has caused 300 gentlemen to sit up all night, not to do business, but for his own satisfaction...
...second stroke fell. How damnably timed they were! The time taken in handing the cane over to the next monitor and his run across the library was just enough for Colin to realize the sickness of the pain of the first blow without any of its sting wearing off. . . . Two more! How they could lay in! And only half. He began to feel sick...
...nostrils, into our ears, down our necks"; fire ants, whose bites "feel exactly like flames rippling over one's body"; big black ants which hissed like snakes when you pinned them down with a twig. When they were working through rapids they had to look out for sting rays. It took them 27 days of "most persistent toil" to make 180 miles -which was 60 miles in a straight line...
...three new ministers from the party of Hornet Daladier?namely M. Hubert (Justice), M. Marraud (Public Instruction), M. Gallet (Pensions). It is just possible that the presence of these Radical Socialists will swing the vote of that party to the cabinet, though Hornet Daladier was believed preparing to sting again. In reality Tardieu L'Americain was appealing to French public opinion over the heads of politicians?a trick he may possibly have learned in the U. S. On the face of things his "republicans of good will" commanded no certain majority, last week, but Le Dauphin boldly announced that...
...their theories and experiences. They have unrolled a prospect wide and various across these one hundred and sixty pages, and they have adorned them with truth, as they found it, and with beauty, as they saw it. Their hope is that they may lull you into flattering agreement or sting you into critical dissent." Contributors noted: Editor Henry Hazlitt, Literary Editor of the New York Evening Sun; Psychologist Joseph Jastrow; Financier Matthew S. Sloan. President of the New York Edison Co. Fat was the fledgling Century (160 pages) few (6) its pages of paid advertising. Price: 75? the copy...