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"Oh please don't set the piano on fire!"* has entered Spanish with a colloquial meaning-unlike such pure vapidities as, "Yes, we have no bananas."
U. S. citizens who have tried to discover its meaning throughout their stay in France, often persist to the point of asking even the very last Frenchman whom they see on the dock before embarking for home. The reticence of even rough dock hands has impressed many.
Zaghlul spoke for 90 minutes. He might have conveyed his meaning in a sentence. The Wafd, he declared, must go outside its ranks to find a premier acceptable to Baron Lloyd. He, Zaghlul, proposed that they support former Premier Adli Pasha Yeghen, leader of the Liberal party, whom Lord Lloyd...
In the course of his evangelical discourse this self-appointed disciple announces, with the cock-sureness common to all those inspired by the 'holier than thou' complex that "the lack of religious feeling in Harvard has reached such a point and is so well known that something must be done...
Sometimes, however, an editor is so irritated by the constant piracy of his news by some competitor, that he deliberately lays a trap for the rascal in the form of a false report. Here Melville Stone's* foiling of the old Chicago Post and Mail 50 years ago is...