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...more be known of himself than that he was born in Jefferson, Tex., went to school and college in "that prodigious state", worked on The Dallas News and The New York Times, had short stories in Scribner's, Collier's and other magazines. Embarrassing, because he is obliged to tout his own work for the good of his employers, and to send out pictures of a countenance, whose ascetic air he would denounce as false-seeming. The embarrassment should end speedily; the work will tout itself. The strategy will soon fail; people will want to known more...
...Tout est bien qui finit bien, remarked Dr. Louis Barthélemy, once Dean of the Law Faculty at the Université de Paris, after quitting a reception by Sénateur Anatole de Monzie, Minister of Education. The Minister had requested the ex-Dean to become once more Dean...
...King Edward (as Prince of Wales). "Speaking of beautiful Lady Mary Craven. . . . The Prince of Wales wrote her a charming and affectionate letter, calling her 'Mary' tout court, saying he was coming to tea with her on such and such an afternoon, and hoped she would be alone so that they could have a nice little téte-à-téte chat. This missive somehow got into the hands of her father. . . . When the day and hour for the tea arrived and the Prince came hoping to find 'dear Mary' alone, he found...
Were MM. Fiquet and Juillard perplexed? Pas de tout. Fiquet had an inspiration-a zoning system. Let the children of the poor eat with their families from 12 to 2. Let the children of the middle-classes eat from 11:30 to 1:30. Sensible, intricate, flexible, the system to be evolved will pay obeisance to the chief gods of the French bureaucracy: omnipresent paternalism, involved elaboration of red tape, with a strong substratum of invaluable commonsense...
...himself appeared surprised to find that the tout was over for when the bell rang immediately after he had been counted out he jumped to his feet. His supporters wished to take the matter up with the timer, were prevented from injuring someone by the timely arrival of special patrolmen...