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...Should war come," concluded Churchill, "-which God forbid; and it does not depend on us whether war comes; less than ever in our history does it depend on us ... a terrible accountancy will be required from those to whom Parliament has accorded, in time of peace, unparalleled resources and unprecedented power...
...more stealing in future? Most of the boys said vaguely that they needed someone they could "depend on." Said resourceful Chick: "A friend of mine is in the Golden Gloves, that's a boxing club, and he fought four rounds and won a beautiful $150 Bulova watch ... If he can do it, I can do it. So I'm gonna enlist in the Golden Gloves, and I'm gonna fight...
...France, and the Benelux trio are now meeting for the purpose of creating an international authority to govern distribution of the Ruhr's coal, iron, and steel production. But the authority will be useless with the Ruhr owned and operated by the German government-to-be. Future allocations will depend entirely on the policy of that government...
...their avuncular duties seriously, describe hotels and list trains for all college towns. Girls are warned against drinking too much ("No man likes a prude, but it's far worse to have a girl who laps up everything in sight"), and other forms of helplessness ("Don't depend on your host to look up trains"). They are also advised that the paint on Yale Bowl benches rubs off, and that "if you ever want to give a [West Point] plebe anything, bring him food, for he is always hungry...
Money in the Sticks. The Messrs. Shubert also went on building or buying control of theaters across the U.S. To fill them, they shrewdly concentrated on operettas, suitable for road shows. They did not depend on the high-priced Broadway casts, but on low-salaried, second-rate singers. The Shuberts often had as many as 20 operettas (The Student Prince, Blossom Time, Maytime, etc.) touring the U.S. In one season they cleared $850,000 on The Student Prince alone...