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...little girl often reads aloud to me and it just happens that I have kept her from seeing these three breaches of decency, but I hope that I shall not be obliged in the future to read TIME before she sees it. Your publication is the cleanest, most wholesome I have ever read, but I am suggesting this improvement...
...children as "a contribution to the state" and then deduct this nebulous "value" from their tax payments. The Deputies, not daring to offend their rural constituents, voted this measure 416 to 100. M. Jacques Dumesnil, one of the chief sponsors of the Cartel bill as a whole, groaned aloud. Protesting at the top of his lungs he cried: "Imbeciles! Scelerats!! All you are capable of voting is that the largest class of electors shall pay nothing!" As the tumult mounted to utter bedlam, the President of the Chamber put on his hat and stalked from the room, thus officially declaring...
Instantly relief overtook the people in the red room. The man in the cutaway coat began to recite a chant, while his listeners turned around and smiled at one another, signaled and whispered, some even rising from their chairs to shout aloud. They were, in person or by proxy, the 700 millionaires who had been invited to come to this drawing room (the auction booth of the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan) to bid for the first items of the collection left by the late Viscount Leverhulme, the manufacturer of Lifebuoy Soap...
Mlle. Cecile Sorel, since the death of Bernhardt perhaps the most celebrated of French actresses, whirled up in another taxi. To her intimates she confided that "Tiger" Clemenceau had just read aloud to her a play which he has written to immortalize her life...
...store. As far as modern tongues are concerned, his knowledge was not confined to books: he spoke German and French with admirable mastery, and was easily at home in Italian and Spanish. His English diction was a delight to his friends, who were always fond of hearing him read aloud...