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Thus Britons, Princes and Untouchables will be dealing as a unit with what? Other Indians, primarily inhabitants of so-called "British India," are represented at the Conference by a delegation which, although including some burnt-out firebrands, such as a survivor of the "AH Brothers" faction, is composed of "Indian Liberals" and ''Indian Moderates...
Fire-though beaten at last-did not exactly lose the fight. Poor though Wapping was, appraisers figured the property loss at "not less than one million pounds" ($4,860,000). Two thousand wretched Wappingites were burnt out of the tenements and hovels they called home...
Most industries in such a situation would form an association, hire a good publicity man, set things right. But the lightning-rod-makers, while they published sales booklets filled with startling pictures of lightning and burnt houses, did not have to do this. In 1915 the National Board of Fire Underwriters set standards for equipment and ever since has urged the use of lightning-rods...
Neither ark nor dove of peace landed on the Ararats (Big Mount Ararat & Little Mount Ararat) last week but bombs, thousands of them, raising thunder and mushroom clouds of dust. Round the Ararats' feet was the smoke of 200 burnt and blackened villages...
...furniture to the Coolidges (who did not particularly want it) for a trifling sum. The telephone rang constantly (60 calls one hour) ; she had to have two policemen come to prevent curiosity peepers from stampeding the house and ruining the grounds. Said she : "We picked up bushels of burnt matches from the grass every morning. Sightseers would sneak in . . . at night and strike matches to get a better view of the house and gardens, the pool and the tennis court. I used to have to get up at 3:45 every morning to go through all my mail...