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Came the army to Reading, where it encamped in the Grain Exchange building and enjoyed a meal of beef stew, tea and bread. Gorged, they listened to the words their leader, A. J. Cook, was addressing them: "You are marching against Capitalism and Baldwinism, and you 260 [they started 400 strong] men are the advance guard of a revolutionary army. This historic miners' march to London is a tragedy to set the real situation of the country before the British public. It is the duty of the working classes to remove those who are responsible for such a calamity...
...Something,' said Wm. Leeds." Wm. Leeds waits. "Toward night . . . there he was, grim and ugly to look at, heavy and dead. . . . He was buried by the town the next morning, not far from the time of the arrival of the cattle train at the Chicago stockyards. And the beef quotations were showing an active market...
...years of concentrated study" and we boast that our graduates are well-rounded as well as being rather deeply learned in one direction. I say they are neither.....Intellectually I am Gilbert's "a thing of rags and patches;" my mind has not the unity of a poor house beef stew.....Many students at Yale are not sure of what they are majoring in until the end of their Junior year. Some do not find out until they graduate. Some never know--but enough...
...often at loggerheads* with Mrs. McCormick's father. When Miss Hanna first saw Miss Roosevelt, the latter had just "burst upon the world as Princess Alice." Miss Hanna thought Princess Alice a harum-scarum. Princess Alice thought the young lady who presided over the griddle cakes and corned beef hash at Senator Hanna's political breakfasts in Lafayette Square, a superb prig...
...slow, massive guards and centers of former days and which in a still more open and speedy game, such as the new rules promise before the season is over, should be increasingly valuable. Simonds is six feet one inch tall and is capable of bringing 180 pounds of beef to bear on opposing guards and tackles...