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Outlining the causes of the present economic conditions, which in turn were responsible for the great downward period of the long business wave he said, "Bad financial conditions in Europe created an unsteadiness in America, this waver in business was further increased by over speculation in stocks, and the whole thing was given another thrust in the wrong direction by the agricultural crises. We can further add a number of special causes, the over-production of mootr cars, for example. Again, there are various things that only show themselves during a crisis, all the result of a general lack...
When poor C.&C. was swept away by untimely influenza, the Great Queen did not waver in her wish to improve on coincidence and make a queen of May. "Eddy" was dead, but "Georgie" was left. May should marry Georgie, decreed Victoria. But Alexandra was violently opposed. What?this girl who was supposed to be grief-stricken for Alexandra's eldest and favorite son?should she be allowed to switch her affections to No. 2? Was it decent? Was it right? In effect, should May be allowed to get away with...
...ruthless, Chang Tsung-chang at once ran up the five-barred flag which used to stand for the Chinese Republic ten years ago, but has stood for every kind of despotism since. One or two gullible correspondents, new at the Chinese game, soon described this shameless old flag-waver as the "Democratic Marshal...
...astounding "Grande Catherine" of this orgy is a woman of 42. Her dark determined eyes seemed never to waver under police querying. When she had answered a question her straight almost lipless mouth shut in a thin, flat line. At her sumptuous estate in Boulogne, where she was arrested, she said disdainfully to the somewhat excited and strenuous investigators: "Here are my keys. You need not trouble to burst open my drawers and root in them like cochons." Even in jail she seemed undiscouraged. "My arrest, pouf! It is nothing," she said, "I work by American methods...
Nevertheless one doubts the absolute permanence of the seal. The glorious afternoon is after all only a memory College spirit takes its bumps periodically; and underneath this periodicity there is clearly a proportion to that scorned symbol of Rotarianism, Success. The appeals of an infuriated group of cheer-leaders waver feebly when the last white line is ninety yards away. There is no entity less abstract in its origins and manifestations than college spirit, and why it should be symbolized and paraded as a Platonic soul-affair, or a causeless hatred in perpetuam, is a mystery...