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...expenditures are 33% to the states' and cities' 67%. "We are not making these comparisons in any vainglorious spirit. Like the rooster who found the big egg, our only intent is to be helpful. This rooster in his wanderings discovered an ostrich egg. He had visions of glorious omelets, generous fries and unlimited scrambles. With infinite labor he rolled his find back to his home pen. Calling his faithful flock together acid pointing to the big egg, he said: 'This is not intended as any reflection upon you. It is merely to show you what...
...very first thing he would do upon reaching his base at Etah, Greenland, would be to look for Amundsen. Arriving at Sydney, N. S., Mr. MacMillan heard from Amundsen via U. S. friends of the latter. "PLEASE CONVEY TO COMMANDER MACMILLAN OUR DEEPEST GRATITUDE AND APPRECIATION. WISHING HIM A GLORIOUS JOURNEY...
...white officials as a class and he attacked most bitterly the domineering merchants who had, he alleged, come to India for ill-got gain. But his attachment to the King-Emperor never wavered in the most difficult moments. All that he wanted was freedom for Indians within "the most glorious empire in history...
...about Jeritza's scarf over her head, instead of a hat, in the cathedral scene. Now Jeritza knows they do wear scarfs to church in Italy. And as for wearing one's hair down one's back in the second act, surely, if one has a glorious cascade of gold, why not loose...
...Gibbon's chief claim to fame is the fact that he lasted 15 dubiously honest rounds with Dempsey at Shelby (TIME, July 16, 1923). He has knocked out a great company of inferior fighters, his most glorious victories having been over William Miske, Kid Norfolk, Georges Carpentier. Now 36, his ring career is doubtless done...