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...Chamber attached an amendment to an article dealing with agrarian taxation providing that farmers should be allowed to evaluate the labor of their wives and children as "a contribution to the state" and then deduct this nebulous "value" from their tax payments. The Deputies, not daring to offend their rural constituents, voted this measure 416 to 100. M. Jacques Dumesnil, one of the chief sponsors of the Cartel bill as a whole, groaned aloud. Protesting at the top of his lungs he cried: "Imbeciles! Scelerats!! All you are capable of voting is that the largest class of electors shall...
...soul of politeness and geniality when feeling pleased but who invariably referred to the bathroom as "my bathroom" when anything, the Ivory Soap for instance, was missing. There was Mrs. Jollyco, a model wife and mother with a most engaging conversational manner, and so tactful that she did not offend Mrs. Folderol of Vanity Fair one bit when she told her that washing Baby Folderol with any soap but Ivory was bound to irritate his tender skin and was, in short, pure folderol. There was old Dr. Verity, who backed her up on this. The doctor had a son, Phil...
...House, to come into the butteries or kitchen, save with their parents or guardians, or with some grave and sober strangers; and, if any shall presume to thrust in, they shall have three pence on their heads; but, if presumptuously and continually they shall so dare to offend, they shall be Mable to an admonition and to other precedings of the College discipline, at the discretion of the President...
...times you hear words that offend you, always put it down as the fact that they do not come from the soul of the American people, but from the politicians, who do not represent the Nation...
...revenue if the bill was to become law. Congressmen had a choice of passing a bill which would fulfill their promises to postmen-voters, which every one knew the President would veto, or of passing a bill which would satisfy the President's demand for revenue, but would offend various users of the mails. The House favored the latter course. The Senate was inclined to the former. The publishers had risen in violent protest when it was suggested that their rates be raised. Both Senate and House yielded to them. Farmers' organizations protested against raising parcels post rates...