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...What we need," Ts said ('tis said--get it) "is a new deal, and that is a man's work." He also declared that this was no insinuation against Mme. Perkins of the U.S.A., who he said had done "a bang...
...stray arm or leg under that inhuman pressure. Somehow it doesn't seem worth the trouble to him. Maybe it will stop. Maybe it will go away or melt like a fog. Anyhow, why die by inches? Why this flurry of self-preservation at such a cost? No, 'tis better to die there calmly--to be run over in one quick piece--with quiet dignity to undergo the roller and come out on the other side a mere blob of jelly but retaining still a spark of self respect...
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...League) du Pont, millionaire munitions manufacturer of nearby Wilmington, Del., whose daughter Ethel is to marry Franklin Roosevelt Jr. in June. The cartoon that delighted Mr. du Pont showed young Roosevelt as Romeo beneath a balcony festooned with elephant-cupids on which a "Juliet du Pont" (see cut) declaimed: "Tis but thy name that is my enemy. . . . What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Mr. du Pont hurried to a telephone, called up the cartoonist at the Record of fice, asked for the original. Canny Cartoonist Doyle...
14th. Awake betimes, but lay long abed listening to the little folks doing their merry square-dance inside my head. Lord, how mischievous they are to jump so hard and race their circles round and round. Pictures of last night's revelry coming between the little dancers. Tis passing strange that the good people of Boston keep giving parties when their guests come just for the wine and much too busy chasing one another to play a proper part...