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...house. Gus refused. He has been loudly mentioned for governor. He is widely believed to be absolutely lobby-and pressure-proof. One powerful lobbyist was so confident that a bill he wanted would pass the house that he showed up for the final action. Just before the vote, Gus unwound his 6 ft. 4, and drawled into the microphone: "Boys, this ain't such a good bill. ..." The lobbyist walked out, wringing his hands. The bill was voted down...
Three years ago this term Harvard was a very different place; different in purpose, different in content, different in appearance. The spring that is now being unwound was then just being coiled, as the University prepared itself for what was to be a vital role in the nation's war effort...
Seven days later, the U.S. quarter master at Berlin asked the U.S. quarter master at Frankfurt why the train had not arrived. Frankfurt passed the query on to British headquarters at Lüneburg. Inch by slow inch, yards of red tape unwound. Five days later came the report: the train had passed promptly through the British zone...
...State Department got all set last week to stage a full-dress crackdown on Sweden. Though friendly to the Allies, Sweden had continued to send Germany vital raw materials in order to keep her own economy going. Just as the last Departmental red tape had been unwound, and the crackdown readied up to the last paragraph, the shrewd Swedes forestalled it. Sweden announced that henceforth all her territorial ports on the Gulf of Bothnia and the Baltic Sea, west to the Falsterbo Canal, would be closed to foreign trade, meaning Germany. Forthwith the State Department quietly filed its snickersnee away...
...Burmese girl from whom, coil by heavy coil, the brass wire of her immemorial feminine bondage is unwound, baring a deformed neck almost too weak to sustain her emancipated head...