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...business, and business is first, last, and always! It is impossible that the stolid merchants of Boston can have calculated the effect of their proposal. Do they not realize that a populace, deprived of its last amusement, becomes sullen and revolutionary? Do they not remember that the Roman emperors fell when they grew stingy with the circus? Let them consult their own memories and recall the blind anger which surged up in them when a tryant father kept them from the elephants and lions...
...Tiger sextet is also strong and should prove an obstacle that the Elis will find difficult to surmount. Although the Nassau men have a comparatively unimpressive record the team has been brilliant at times especially in defeating the St. Nicholas Club team. However, the Orange and Black fell before the Williams six which was defeated by Yale in three contests. The Princeton team's development has been slow, but critics expect them to offer stiff opposition to Yale's stickmen...
...Upon it fell the printing of Liberty Bonds and Victory Bonds. The rise in prices, moreover, occasioned the issue of large additional quantities of paper money...
...piece of paper had some figures on it. It was signed with seven names-the signatures of the seven richest men in Germany. It was an order for the destruction of Europe. Paris betrayed, London falling in flames-that was what that little laundry ticket meant. But because it fell into the hands of Captain Tom Preston, the conspiracy was undone...
...three-the blows fell on a large slate tablet engraved with a golden cross. At the third blow the tablet cracked across. The door did not seem to budge. Pope Pius faced about and returned to his throne...