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...arrived. A few weeks later he appeared again and this time no one was home but the cook. He followed her into the kitchen and for two hours held forth on his favorite subject. Then he vanished in a cloud of dust. I doubt if Miss Wrest ever renewed her invitation. E. TREVOR HILL New York City...
...report told, and Senator Reed rehearsed, how Mr. Vare, whom the late Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania used to call "the ashcart statesman" because he once hauled ashes and garbage in Philadelphia, spent colossal sums to wrest the nomination from Gifford Pinchot and George Wharton Pepper (who both used colossal sums themselves...
...from all access to the sea; 2) Chile acquired the largest nitrate fields in the world, taxes from which now supply over half the revenues of the Chilean Treasury; and 3) Peru was deprived even of Tacna and Arica, without which strategic provinces she cannot hope to wrest back her ravished nitrate fields...
...unfortunate that the Major's conduct is not typical of the attitude of the church at large to such onslaughts. Usually when a pastor sees a menacing umbrella, he attempts to wrest it from the hands of the brandisher, and break it against future attacks. And in his failure to do so, he betrays the weakness of his body. Such was the case of Dr. Straton who recently lost in court his case against a militant atheist whose propaganda was hardly worthy of such attention...
...What's the trouble between Lithuania and Poland?" Perennial Quarrel. Poland and Lithuania are both states which carved themselves out from the onetime Russian Empire, when it fell; and their quarrels arise from the fact that each has persisted in a militant desire to continue carving and to wrest from the other certain provinces...