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...Have organized safari and got small bull elephant; all well." In the Davison marksmanship there was no clue to identify the killer-both are excellent shots-nor in their respective degrees of bloodthirstiness. Before President Davison sailed, commissioned by his curators to include four elephants (small enough not to usurp too much space in the exhibit) among his trophies, he said: "I haven't the slightest desire to shoot an elephant" (TIME, June 19). And a long letter received last week from Mrs. Davison by her mother-in-law closed with the words: "I really feel badly about shooting...
...Sanhedrim that draws up Boston social lists reaches out long pseudopodia to Cambridge, absorbing whatever it wants in the ways of male sustenance, and rejecting the rest. So the young roam through their pleasures and palaces quite separately from the old, and it is the young who usually usurp the front pages of the society sections. Relegation of the middle-aged, and increased respect for the goings-on at deb parties have been common to all societies for many years now, but nowhere so boldly as in Boston. In New York the opening of the opera still recalls...
Under such unfavorable circumstances, the prospective tutor might easily degenerate into an assistant in cramming, and usurp the function of the two or three "grinds" which fraternities annually chose for strictly pragmatic purposes. Such an outcome would be a travesty on the genuine tutorial system...
Furious, Boss Theodore roared: "This action is an attempt by bankers to usurp the functions of Government! If persisted in. the Bank's ultimatum will mean that within a few days the Bank will refuse to pay checks drawn on public accounts in discharge of payments authorized by the Government...
What businessmen of the City got out of all this was that Mr. Lloyd George was testing the possibility that he could switch over and usurp leadership of the Labor Party; and that Mr. Snowden, with his talk of imposing "the greatest sacrifices on those best able to bear them," meant capitalists no good. Within 24 hours the gross value of leading British Government securities had declined $150,000,000 on Change. And the pound sterling "broke sharply...