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...exceptional. The idea of children by choice instead of chance has made so much headway that its antagonists are now on the defensive, as one may judge from their reactions. Instead of fainting spells and partial paralysis, the term causes the adrenals to work overtime; people rage and imagine vain things...
...would like to see Germany clean up France' - adding, 'I would like to meet Jusserand and tell him that to his face.' . . . Only a man with superb indifference to truth and the realities can assert that the Americans who fell in France did not die in vain. ... In eleven European countries despots wipe their feet upon the prostrate bodies of Liberty and Democracy, though none but Mussolini dares to avow it and to boast of profaning the twin goddesses in be half of whom Woodrow Wilson summoned this country...
...FIND ZIEGFELD" said papers. Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. who can spot "a woman of parts" for his shows as quickly as a jockey can spot a likely bit of horseflesh, was sought in vain last week by process servers. Producer Ziegfeld lately announced that his chorines in the future would be decently dressed. Now he seems to have found chorine-wrappings expensive; the Eaves Costume Co. claims he owes them some $30,000 for costumes for his last three shows. Justice Ford came to the aid of foot-weary process servers, said they could serve the papers by nailing them...
...idiot lemner's vain attempt deride...
That amiable old roué, Solomon, is, far part of the book, the suppositions "Preacher."* He shows that in the end all human activities are vain...