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...newspapers front-paged Sergeant-at-Arms Jurney as the "Secretaire-General of the American Senate, who has been charged by his Government to establish an agency for the importation of French wines, which will begin functioning after the Prohibition law is repealed. . . ." Aghast, Sergeant-at-Arms Jurney hastened to explain his status: "What worries me most is that those Senators . . . may be also mixed up about who I am. . . . They gave me some fine sample bottles of wine, which I ought to return...
...courage was a good midwife, and the "Spirit of Laws" was virile from the day it saw the light of the tapers. Those who doubt may look about them, or may go hear Professor Holcombe explain Montesquieu in Sever 7, at 12 o'clock today...
...with a glowing, enchanting blue. The leaves will crackle under foot, and the dying plant life glimmer deceptively gold and crimson in the sun, as with a vernal life and freshness. The tang in the air will stimulate the will to live, when old men will feel young and explain "Indian summer." Then the Vagabond will take to Nature a bottle of sweet wine, and bread and cheese, and her, to make one more memory against the icy death of winter...
...will explain to the audience in simple terms the meaning of the electron, of micro-amperes, and the cathode rays. The properties of radium and uranium with their mysterious emanations, which man is as yet totally unable to control, will also be discussed at length and a demonstration will be offered of the versatility of vacuum tubes as the electric eye, the electric ear, and the electric touch...
...news that the dollar was yanked from 66 to 70? on foreign exchange. Left Horse Whipped. As soon as the sound-money horse got ahead, the President felt it wise to whip up his Left horse, the steed of inflation. A "high authority'' was at pains to explain in detail to the Associated Press...