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...last week Dr. Marie Carmichael Stopes, foremost British champion of birth restriction, won her long battle with the Lord Chamberlain, wrung from him a license for her cinema tract Our Ostriches...
...India, then devoted all his possessions except the last wad or two of rags to succoring the needy. During the Boer war he turned the other cheek to Great Britain by organizing Indian Red Cross units, served with such passive, non-violent gallantry at the front that he wrung a medal for bravery from the Empire. For his pro-British speeches during the World War he drew another medal...
...among us has not? He has his faults. But let us not go on cursing, abusing, and damning him. ... I tell you, friends, it gave me a heartache to see those great [school] buildings [at Davenport] nearly empty and that great school [of chiropractic] almost without pupils. It wrung my heart to the uttermost...
...tall, straight, handsome man from Tulsa, Okla. Briskly he paced a hundred feet along the stone-flagged corridor, turned sharply into another office labelled "Secretary of War." There, surrounded by flowers, furled flags, miniature airplanes, trench equipment, antique cannon and the portraits of former War Secretaries, many hands wrung his, many voices babbled congratulations...
...Philadelphia the silver-haired statesman warmly wrung the hand of Quakerdom's distinguished S. Solis Cohen, the physician who saved his life in Philadelphia two years ago. In gratitude the Prime Minister stopped over for three hours, facetiously recalled to august lunchers at the Bellevue-Stratford how "Philadelphians used to come in with long faces and look at me over the foot of the bed and reveal in their countenances how long I had to live...