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...famished Kiyoshi would partake of it, fall off. Finally the owners of the factory, realizing that for the honor of Tokyo Kiyoshi must come down, agreed to reinstate the discharged workmen. Police screamed the news through megaphones. Stiffly victorious Kiyoshi Tanabe climbed down, his mouth parched white with thirst. Correspondents noted that he had been aloft exactly 129 hours, Japan's all-time chimney-sitting record...
Chapin suffered from two afflictions: tuberculous throat and a thirst for gambling. Driven from work by the first ailment in 1914, he took leave of absence, won a fortune in the sugar market, lost everything-including some money entrusted to him-when the outbreak of the war closed the Stock Exchange. Back in Manhattan he became more and more deeply involved. Extravagant living made hopeless any effort to pay his debts. At the end of four years a court demand for an accounting of his trust caused the final break. Walking with his wife one day Chapin was accosted...
...Bengal lancer has already had, if not nine lives like a cat, at any rate more than one. But Onetime Lancer Yeats-Brown would probably admit he was unusual. Not every fresh-cheeked British boy from Sandhurst turns into a No. 1 poloist and pig-sticker, nor discovers a thirst for the mysteries of Hindu Yoga...
...thousands who descend upon Saratoga every summer for a brief fortnight of track betting are the 25 curative, State-owned mineral springs which brought the town its first fame, made Saratoga more fashionable than Newport in the '705, put hump-backed Saratoga trunks in every fashionable attic, Saratoga (thirst-making) chips on every smart table. Throughout the town and the i,ioo-acre state park around it, the springs of Saratoga bubble today as they did 50 years ago through cast-iron hydrants and bronze pipes into dingy pagodas and drinking halls. This despite the fact that Saratoga Springs have...
...define, but friendship ultimately provides its own interpretation. Remarkable it is that the close of a quarter of a century finds us willing to build Rotary's increasing purpose upon that word 'friendship'. . . .'' Sir Henry: "Religious contentions, the predatory desires of monarchs, the thirst for revenge, all fruitful disturbances in international relations, have largely disappeared and with the advance of commerce, finance and trade as preponderating influences in the world today, it is found that in these activities exist the most potential causes for strife and conflict...