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Lady Duff-Gordon, fashion designer and talker: " I went into bankruptcy and have been relieved of my debts, which will probably amount to less than...
...blatant Curley, rejected as Mayor, assail Peters as the candidate of "Harvard College and the slums"? If Curley ever slept at a hobo lodging house and chopped wood for his breakfast, it is not of common report. Peters is different, more of a doer than a talker, a getter of information at first hand. Not soon will his old friends stop chaffing him about his adventure to see for himself how the "down- and-outers" were treated at the "institution" known as Wayfarers' Lodge...
...Premier is either delightfully optimistic or else a very clever talker. If Russia is content to wait, why the armies launched against the unoffending Poles? Why that New Year's message last year, which so confidently stated that by the time the world should be writing another January First on its calendars, Bolshevism would be supreme? And now comes this new decision to undermine the reserve power of Western Europe and of America, ostensibly in preparation for the day of the great upheaval. Anyone but Nikolai Lenine would be awed by the enormity of the proposal thus given with such...
...relations with Mars are always a subject of interest. When the weather, politics and the war have been drained dry, and nothing remains but a yawn to fill the gap of conversation; when the last conversationalist has chronic lock jaw and the last small talker is asleep, the trend of talk may turn on Mars. Mars is always safe...
...well. He was stubborn and egotistical, though intrepid and courageous in every way. Andrew Johnson was one of the guests at Mr. Wise's wedding. He met President Grant in a train one evening and talked with him about the Civil War; he was a clever and brilliant talker...