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With the indignation of the historian, Bruce decided this was a "silly plaque" to mark the spot where Garfield, dying of wounds from bullets fired at him by an assassin in Washington's old Sixth Street railroad station, had been sent by his physicians in a last vain hope that the sea air might save his ebbing life. Last week, having started with a contribution from his own weekly 50? allowance, Bruce was in the midst of a campaign to raise funds for a memorial worthy of a President. In time he wants to collect "several hundred dollars...
...blackboard than twelve of his 16 students began following an old Spanish custom by discussing the questions aloud and threshing out their answers. During the whole two hours they peered at one another's papers, passed around notes, kept up a constant chatter. McNaughton begged in vain for silence. When he asked three of the most recalcitrant students to move to other desks, one flatly refused. Finally, the desperate professor implored his interpreter to intervene. Scandalized, the interpreter declared that he could not possibly tell his social superiors how to behave...
...expensive business, for even though he was rich by the standards of Roghudi, Mayor Nucera, a landholder and the nephew of the local archpriest, could not afford those three cigarettes a day. And in the end it proved in vain. Francesca passed by all the smoke rings with a preoccupied eye. Pietro raced off once again to Reggio and bought himself a book on how to write love letters. Francesca left his best efforts unanswered...
...Poznan last week, a Polish farmer -i dug deep into his pocket to pull out a roll of dog-eared but treasured U.S. greenbacks. "If it's dollars you want," he said, "I've got them." Others like him cheerfully proffered their savings in zlotys in a vain effort to buy for themselves some of the items laid out in a mouth-watering display of U.S. consumer goods at the first U.S. exhibit to appear at Communist Poland's annual International Trade Fair. To hold back the crowds, the exhibit had to be closed briefly every...
...lofty ideals instilled in us by our mothers ... It was their constant and cherished expectation that we 'return thanks to the state by delivering our people from evil and suffering' . . . The double challenge of the mainland remaining unrecovered and our people therein crying out in vain for deliverance aggravates our sense of regret . . . My wife and I dedicate ourselves once more to the supreme task to which we are called and thus strive to be not unworthy of our upbringing...