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...their class directory, thumb-marks of Harvard 1921-ers may be found upon the name of Thomas S. Lament, son of famed Morgan Partner Lament, upon the name of a Cabot, a Frothingham, a Lee, a Lothrop, a Lowell, a Sedgwick. They do not all know one another. But all know Powers Hapgood. He is their only coal miner. He prepared for Harvard at Andover, where Yale is the most popular college...
What a mincing third movement! Pretty. "General and Mrs. Tom Thumb" was a good title. But that rasping and rattling? of course they did quarrel like little tornadoes...
...Albanian authorities for a text of the agreement in Albanian differing from the binding text in Italian. Allegedly the Italian text (the "real" text) provides for interest at 13%, instead of 7˝% as in the Albanian version, and by other clauses virtually places the Treasury of Albania under the thumb of Italian bankers...
Theodore Roosevelt: "My brother, Kermit, lost his left thumb when, last week, a Manhattan surgeon amputated it to rid him of a persistent infection. The infection was apparently the result of radium treatment which my brother underwent six years ago to remove from his left thumb a wart...
Crisis. The events which sent M. Pashitch hurrying to his King were typical of many a Balkan crisis. The country had supposed that Foreign Minister Nintchitch* was in close touch with Premier Mussolini, and also that the new Jugoslav-born President Zogu of Albania was under his thumb. Like a thunderclap had come the news that Albania and Italy had concluded a mutual accord (TIME, Dec. 13). A rumor spread that this treaty contained secret military clauses which would make Albania an Italian pistol pointed at Jugoslavia. Suspicion, fear, hate seethed. Evidently Foreign Minister Nintchitch was a fool...