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This seemed to conclude the interesting part of the morning shows the majority of the 40 assorted taxi-drivers, ministers, old ladies, and other onlookers hurried out. But a few remained to see if Shubow and his associates could successfully challenge the constitutionality of a 1919 Massachusetts statute making it a crime to advocate the overthrow of the Commonwealth by force...
...found white-mustached Ambassador Alberto Serrano Pellé mowing his lawn. When she asked asylum, the ambassador curtly refused. There was a sharp argument.* "Thank you," snapped Evelyn, "I won't forget this." Serrano shouted: "I won't forget it either!" Desperate, Evelyn ran out, hailed a taxi and went to the Ecuadorian embassy, which she had previously feared to try because the Seguridad had guards on watch outside. Suddenly ordering the driver to stop, she skipped in the side door past three flatfooted Seguridad sentinels. Inside, she got a quick "Yes" from the ambassador and a warm...
Nothing in her discoveries "changed the picture of the man I knew, but fresh aspects came to light." They came from Chesterton's taxi drivers, barbers, secretaries, neighbors, and companions of childhood. Loosely strung together as they are, these reminiscences do not, of course, add up to a portrait of the artist. Indeed, most of them give so fantastic an impression of G.K. that, from this book alone, he would seem to have been hardly more than a remarkably likable lunatic...
...most Japanese firms budgeted only a nominal amount for advertising and often treated this simply as a good-will fund. An advertising salesman would be politely received by a minor official, and, with typical courtesy, would be given a small ad or a modest fee, known as ashi dai (taxi fare or, more literally, feet...
...series of 20 lectures on "political literature" which Calosso is delivering at the University of Rome, a pro-Fascist student released a stink-bomb in the classroom, while others cried out: "You helped us lose the war!" Next day, as Calosso waited on a street corner for a taxi, another student stepped up and emptied a can of red paint over his head. To top it all, police stopped a girl entering Calosso's classroom with a box full of angry hornets...