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...fellow made shift to enter and was warmly greeted within by his old and loyal followers of years past. They bade him sup with them in their large and paneled dining room. All unwitting he accepted. Hardly had the little group sat down before one of the young medics began mouthing pendantically about his sacra lillac joint. In his usual gallant way the Vag abond played the game. "I find that front bites better with a Dowaglac." O God, O Montreal what had he done? Laughter, like summer thunder beneath distant horizons, shook the clapboards. Sacro-illiac was a part...
...Chinese people." This he gave to Stanford University. It became the nucleus of the great Chinese library there. Dr. Rosenbach described how he had informed President Coolidge that the first edition (1865) of Alice in Wonderland was not to Lewis Carroll's liking and was therefore sup- pressed. President Coolidge had remarked: "Suppressed? I didn't know there was anything off-color in Alice...
...cree of Oct. 9, 1930 ordered "immediate despatch of all unemployed to work and the cessation of unemployment benefits. . . . The unemployed are to be drafted not only for work in their own trades but to other work. . . . No excuse for refusal to work, with the exception of illness, sup ported by a medical certificate, should be considered." In other words martial-industrial...
...going ahead and disposing of business in an orderly and, I trust, intelligent way; and I will pay no attention to any cooked-up effort to stampede the Congress." Nevertheless the immediate significance (if any) of the Democratic offer was that the Democrats of the 71st Senate would sup port the Republicans against the insurgents of their own party...
...Schollars, table.' In 1719 Tutor Flynt was 'allow'd upon the Consideration of his Bodiely infirmity to live out of Commons, he taking care to be present in the Hall at Meal-times as there may be Occasion.' In 1734 fellow-commoners 'Shall have the priveledge of Dining & supping with the Fellows at their table in the Hall, and Shall be excus'd going on errands, Shall have the title of Master, and Shall have the priveledge of wearing their Hats as Masters do.' A law in 1734 declared that 'All the Tutors, & Professors, Graduates & Undergraduates, who have Studies...