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...sterling silver, at his daughter's wedding was estimated at $700,000. Tweed gave lavishly to charity: once, when approached by a ward leader for a donation to the poor, Tweed wrote a check for $5,000. "Oh Boss," said the ward heeler, half jokingly, "put another naught to it." "Well, well, here goes," said Tweed, and upped the ante...
Every newcomer to San Francisco is overtaken with a sense of complete be wilderment. The mind, however it may be prepared for an astonishing condition of affairs, cannot immediately push aside its old instincts of value and ideas of business, letting all past experience go for naught . . . There is a period when it wears neither the old nor the new phase, but the vanishing images of one and the growing perceptions of the other...
...Laborites were chagrined and showed it. Eden's sudden fervor for a meeting of chiefs of government after months of discouraging Sir Winston Churchill from trying, grumbled Clem Attlee, was naught but "a deathbed repentance." "I do not believe the government have seized all the opportunities they might," said cockney Herbert Morrison, Labor's last Foreign Secretary, speaking at Eastleigh in Hampshire. "The Labor government would be more energetic. I mean, compare the mentality of the Tories and the Socialists. We're the lively lot, they're the slothful...
Publishers Cameron and Kahn evidently are, as you imply in your story, devoted almost exclusively to the handling of books like Harvey Matusow's False Witness that other publishing houses want naught to do with. TIME did a good...
...fancy now, beneath the twilight gloom, Come, let me lead thee o'er this 'second Rome' . . . This embryo capital, where fancy sees Squares in morasses, obelisks in trees; Which second-sighted seers e-v'n now adorn With shrines unbuilt and heroes yet unborn Though naught but woods and Jefferson they see, Where streets should run and sages ought...