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...cannot give you the exact figures," said the Finance Minister in high delight, "but I admit, if you wish, that the difference in favor of the bonds amounts to close to 100,000,000 francs. If I have been reproached with being too daring, my project's first results would seem to indicate that I took the right course and that, as I like to repeat, daring creates confidence. It is evident people with money to invest are eager to put themselves in condition to subscribe to the loan...
Bliss Perry: A scholar in our own modern tongue, an author and a teacher with a rare gift for making delight in literature contagious...
...while "in the pink" (dressed in the scarlet hunt coat). Last week, Prince Henry, the King's third son, absentmindedly pulled out his pipe and lit it while waiting for the hounds to pick up the scent. Members of the hunt looked aghast, but their amazement quickly changed to delight; and in five minutes some 20 pipes were going. Thus was another precedent created...
Henry Ford is one of the most inveterate bargain-hunters in the country. Old inns, old sap-buckets, old railways delight him. Particularly, he has been interested in dilapidated things which the Government has vainly clung to. Refused Muscle Shoals on his own terms, he now considers the idle fleet. Selling things to Mr. Ford, however, is no royal road to fortune...
...clear and luminous intellect, shining with a steady glow, has been a beacon light to many who seek their way amid the tossing waters that surround as, Loving beauty in literature and in art, and seeing the need of it for the delight of life and the refinement of character, he has never allowed his apostleship of beauty to divert him from the pursuit of goodness and truth. His own literary work, pure and simple in style, elevated in feeling, exact and just in thought, has inspired and stimulated not only his own pupils in the great University...