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Only friends call as a rule and the consensus of undergraduate opinion finds it easier to hang up on a solicitor than to ease him out the door after a lengthy harangue. In Harvard, tradesmen soon became tired of wasting their time and money telephoning students...
...thought it a 'free love nest,' but the village horse-doctor on the jury thought we had set fire to it ourselves, to get the insurance. Also, and worse yet, they thought we had arranged our affairs in such a way that we could beat the local tradesmen out of the money we owed them. It was a matter for suspicion that we had got ropes, to serve as fire-escapes, shortly before the fire: they blamed us for this, and at the same time they blamed us because we had made insufficient preparations. . . . In short...
...gulch gold was found on the shores of Anvil Creek, a few miles from Cape Nome. Overnight a rip-roaring canvas-and-scantling town sprang up, sheltering, feeding and quenching the notable thirsts of 20,000 miners, gamblers, tradesmen and wenches. Among that gaudy citizenry were such characters as Klondike Kate, Alexander Pantages and Key Pittman, now U. S. Senator from Nevada. By 1900, there was no place like Nome for placer mining. Then, when the beach and tundra had been furrowed of its treasure, Nome languished as a commercial city. Today less than 1,500 people live there. Last...
...Brussels the indomitable tradesmen of the Belgian Licensed Victualers' Association calmly announced that they had had 100,000 posters printed and secretly distributed throughout Europe. Their purpose: to force the Belgian Parliament to lift the ban forbidding a licensed victualer to sell spirits or even keep a bottle in the house in case of illness. ''That prohibition is ruining our business." declared a spokesman for the Association. 'If we are to be ruined let all Belgium suffer too! If we can entirely eliminate the tourist trade Parliament is responsible...
...Cord fled to Britain, fearing lest their two strapping boys, two baby girls be kidnapped. They took a big house near London, could not get on with English servants or tradesmen. They were pleased when their yacht arrived from the U. S. because it brought them "pure" tinned milk...