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...through the Chancellor's speech there were constant interruptions, slamming of desk-lids, rude calls. At one point, the Chancellor was forced to halt by the indescribable racket of Government supporters and Opposition as they vainly and vocally tried to shout one another down. Herr Luther looked pleadingly toward the President's Chair, but Herr Doktor Loebe was not there; he had left the Chamber for a snack of Frankfurters and beer. The Acting President, Herr Riesser, much preoccupied, suddenly became aware that the Chancellor was not speaking, looked up, caught Herr Luther's eye, jumped...
...muleta as he goes, balancing his sword ' above it with arch precision. Grace is everything. The watching thousands bate their breath to see such bravery in a mincing mayfly. He makes it seem the merest trifle to approach a snorting, bloody-eyed monster where it stands at bay, to halt six paces off and pose a second, waiting for the animal to come into position; to rise on tiptoe and make a dainty death-charge, to strike home lightning-wise between the shoulders, step aside, doff the hat and pose for plaudits...
...endure for some time yet, because of its tremendous base of easy funds. Time money, it is true, has hardened up somewhat; but the disparity between long term investments and short term loans in yield is still too great for the "creeping bull market" on the Stock Exchange to halt sharply as yet. Moreover, industrial recovery, while genuine, is nevertheless slow because of surplus productive facilities. In 1922-23 and again in 1923-24, the business cycle was an annual affair, and quickly completed. But the cycle dating from last August in its secondary phase is very evidently an affair...
...trade, although in some quarters it is apparent that merchants have not stocked their shelves heavily. The Manhattan stock market, last week, encountered its first important reaction, so long expected. The slump in prices proved only temporary, however, particularly in the good rails, and failed to indicate any real halt to the rising market...
Proceedings in the French speaking contest for the medal offered annually by the Comite France-Amerique of Paris, were called to a sudden halt last night in Sever Hall when an over-energetic janitor followed out his duties to the letter of the law, and turned out the lights and locked up a 9 o'clock sharp, without looking to see if the building was empty...