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...back and read his congratulatory messages (some from employers). Both West Coast business and labor heaved a sigh of relief. Employers who would never learn to love Harry Bridges had learned how to live with him and like it. The case against him had become a nuisance and a bore...
G.I.s and Tommies bore out the Field Marshal's story. German girls in brief shorts and halters systematically sunned themselves in full view of U.S. engineers building a bridge over the Weser River. Sometimes the girls shed the halters...
...said: "It's like a Turkish bath in there. Goodness knows how Father manages to stick it!''; and Alexandra, Tsarina of all the Russias, who brought along a whole corps of the Imperial Ballet to dance while she gambled-chance can be such a bore...
...ships of the imperial squadron were heading for the Adriatic port of Brundisium (Brindisi). The largest ship carried vast purple sails; its prow bore a golden lion's head. Lounging in a tent beneath the ornamented rigging was Augustus Octavian Caesar, Emperor of Italy, Gaul and the lands of the Nile. Lying on a pallet in the next ship was the Roman poet Virgil, coughing 'blood and clutching the manuscript of his unfinished masterpiece, The Aeneid...
...Canada's campaigns are dull and dreary, highly moral and a fearful bore. . . . Perhaps it has something to do with our climate. The cold of Canada freezes the warm blood of our whimsy and freezes the warm phrase on our lips before it can be heard. The unthinking man will say that this is all to the good, that politics here is kept on a high plane of dignity and decorum. . . . On the contrary, politics, in our cold, undiluted form, bore us so much that . . . often politicians can hardly get a meeting together. . . . One prominent candidate found himself addressing...