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...expected in May and the President may call a special session of the Senate to try the case. In any event it would keep numbers of Senators in Washington when they would ardently wish to go home to mend their fences before elections next fall. Incidentally it would afford columnists endless material for jokes about "Vienna bred" and "English as he is impeached...
...less than a million dollars to his name can well afford to own a yacht. So far there are three men out for election as Senator in Pennsylvania next fall. Every one of them could afford a yacht. In the background are four or five more men potent in Pennsylvania politics. They, too, could have yachts. Pennsylvania has rich leaders...
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do; I'm half crazy, all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, We can't afford a carriage, But you'd look sweet upon the seat Of a bicycle built...
...will be a long time, however, before the Entente will be willing to relinquish the preponderance of power secured at Versailles. But with the expansion of the League its government must become more representative. Meanwhile the postponement of further negotiations to the fall may afford an opportunity for smoothing out present difficulties, and finding a way of admitting Germany on terms which will not be incompatible with the interests of extra-European nations...
...elimination of the waste in industry we can not only increase output, but we can cut down the average working day to five or six hours, and thus afford the worker with an increased chance to broaden and enjoy his life...