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Politics. Should any political thoughts stray through Mr. Chief Justice's mind this year, it might occur to him to compare the 1908 and 1928 Republican platforms. The one Nominee Taft ran on was partly the work of a newly-eminent lawyer who had successfully prosecuted the Harriman railroad combinations and the Standard Oil Co. for the U. S.-Frank Billings Kellogg, then called "the Beau Brummel of the politicians...
Later at a Grand Fete in the gardens of His Majesty's palace, a special detachment of police gently prodded stray Parliamentarians who forgot that they were not robed and proceeded to squat upon the ground, though chairs abounded...
Occasionally temporary branches of the Gulf Stream have been noted. Perhaps the steamship captains, reporting a reversal of the Stream last week, had ignorantly floundered through some such stray stream...
...solution completely negatives the last presumption. From the evidence in the hands of the Monitor, it is shown that University Extension work has increased in all its dimensions of late, until this octopus of education has in its grip the stray minutes of the workman's day. Brawn bows politely to Brain, overalls give way to gown, the proletariat educates itself, and the Monitor is happy. All's right with the world while the great god Statistics holds sway, and the Janus of these days smiles with equal radiance in both directions...
...possibilities of work were fewer still, since employers preferred gangs of supervised prisoners available at minimum wage. Michel, marveled at his long-lost joie de vivre, remembered his ambitions, and the oath that never would he degenerate to a contemptible liberé, crouched on his empty barrow awaiting a stray commission. But there he was, and there the Guiana vulture, bird of ill omen, flapped in the dust, croaked over dung in the street...