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...offered a tutee three fingers of Port and uncovered forthwith a chipper reaction to the intricacies of Lady Macbeth. The domain bounded by green glass and shiny labels has obviously been too long neglected by purveyors of modern education. But the thought occurs,--imagine rising with a hangover to greet a nine o'clock on the "Amenities of Gin," and an eleven o'clock laboratory exercise in "The Art of the little finger as applied to Chartreusel...
...acute. When Avco was six months old the 1929 crash occurred. Immediately afterward the company altered its investment policy, put much of its ample cash into other than aviation stocks. There were three presidents in three years, President LaMotte Turck Cohu taking office last March just in time to greet Mr. Cord...
...talked only of Republican prosperity. Now he was kept busy explaining whither that prosperity had vanished. At Martinsburg he joshed with citizens about some apples they had given him on an earlier excursion. At Garrett, Ind., next morning he marveled to see so many people up so early to greet him. As his train skirted Chicago his boosters turned out with placards: "Hoover or Hell...
Beaming with paternal pride, two elderly gentlemen entered a room in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel one day last week to greet two young men and to listen appreciatively to what the young men had to say. The juniors were Lieut.-Commander Thomas G. V. Settle, U. S. N., winner of the James Gordon Bennett Trophy in this year's International Balloon Races in Switzerland (TIME, Oct. 10); and Ward Tunte Van Orman who finished second. They had just returned from Europe via Graf Zeppelin and South America...
...through the halls of Europe, and through the imagination of his contemporaries, the man who had called France the fatherland of his genius, passed through the courts of the palace, and entered the presence of the Emperor. When he bowed in the doorway, Napoleon, first among those present to greet him, raised his arm and cried "voila un homme...