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...roue, was given his fling at the once-wild Argentinian, and in twelve rounds caused his victim even more discomfort than did Heavyweight Champion Dempsey one summer night last year, than did big black Harry Wills two months ago. Dempsey was mercifully swift with the coup de gráce. Weinert, less forceful but imaginatively brutal, subjected the glowering, laborious, fat-ridden Firpo to nearly an hour's torture. He hammered the Firpo brisket, he split the Firpo lips; he drew pants, heaves, quantities of gore. New Jersey does not permit decisions. None was needed...
...would make the shade of Rabelais long for reincarnation to see so current his motto: "Fay ce que voudras." But thinking people are constrained to oppose the new libertinism. Man may, indeed, be an animal, often a superb animal. But isn't he something more? Is it rational to conclude that in spite of his evolution he remains a brute? Emerson said...
...favorite topic for conversation. Men, and sometimes women, gather at their favorite cafe and after a preliminary garçon, une fine champagne, or un bock, s'il vous plaît, they lean forward over their tables and start the conversation with: Qu'est-ce que se passe en Alsace Lorraine; qu'est-ce que se passera? Herriot, que va-t-il faire...
...Dutch gave the "Stevenson Scheme" its coup de grâce by refusing to restrict their considerable rubber production, and unloading their product on the syndicate. Rubber, instead of remaining at the pegged price of 30? a pound, has declined to 22?. Even on the best British plantations the cost of production is something like 18? a pound. The chief solution proposed to the rubber growers' dilemma is to increase the use of rubber in floor coverings, and to amalgamate plantation companies so as to get a real control over their operations...
...WORLD CE:SIS, Second Volume.- Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill.-Scritner...