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...defining state authority, the Court did not only limit. In the case of the Pacific American Fisheries v. Alaska, the Court held that the territory could legally compel fish canneries which pack large amounts of fish to pay a higher tax per pound than canneries with smaller outputs. The Court declared that the tax was fair because it tended to preserve the subject (fish) of taxation...
...apathetic, and the performance of a standard very much lower than that to which I had been accustomed in Brussels. Two days later I was again in Mr. Harris' office. He offered me the role of the page in the Ballo in Maschera-and my reply was to pack my trunks and to go straight back to Brussels...
...rotund and eminently genial Otis Skinner, a fine actor. Mr. Skinner took it into his head that the rogue should be played hygienically. His Falstaff was a beaming and unvicious figure. One could not help feeling that he would make his next entrance down the chimney with a pack on his back instead of through the scullery door with a wench by the hair. Mr. Skinner's judgment was admissible but, in the opinion of many, at variance with Shakespeare. It is to be said that the audience laughed at him immoderately...
...quite like Memorial Day, so much so that all the villagers used to say. "Why it's al-most Memorial Day" and some of them even went so far as to say. "Why it's almost Memorial Day again." And then they'd get out their Fords, pack up a picnic lunch and leave town. But it never mattered how many left town there were always flights. Sometimes there were as many as two fights a day. That's because they were hard-shelled Baptists. There's nothing funnier than a hard-shelled Baptist in hot water, unless...
...competition. Russell ran well within himself and appears dangerous, while Hussey can always be counted on for a place among the leaders. With this sort of competition Miller should run the greatest race of his career, and is expected by many to show his heels to the pack...