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...Dominions, dry and cheerful little Son Malcolm MacDonald. Mr. Pirow made the official rounds of London and to intimates he confided that he thought his welcome, if anything, too hospitable. The British Islanders, he was resolved, should not take in the Union of South Africa. She had something more precious than diamonds to sell the Mother Country, and Oswald Pirow had come all the way from Pretoria to London to sell it at the highest possible price. In the end the price Mother Britain might be willing to pay South Africa must be named by the British Admiralty...
...directions, Founder Buchman looked forward to a day during which he would broadcast to England, the expenses to be paid as a birthday gift from his British followers. But that afternoon as Dr. Buchman was motoring to fulfill this engagement, the gasoline feed line of his automobile clogged, precious minutes passed and finally Grouper H. Kenaston Twitchell read the Founder's words into the microphone. Outstanding birthday greeting received by Dr. Buchman was from Groupers in Hell, Norway, who cabled: "Hell's bells are ringing, our hearts are singing" in honor of "Frank's fifty-eighth...
...atheist." Once a certain fire-eating man fell in love with the bearded lady, whose place was next his on the sideshow platform. When she spurned him, his love turned to hate. At the next show he suddenly shot his flaming breath at her, singed her precious beard...
Little chessmen, small enough to be packed into a thimble; big chessmen, large enough to serve as bookends; crude chessmen, roughly hewn out of wood; and sparkling chessmen, delicately fashioned in precious metals--all will be included in the exhibit...
...once more has the Union Library unlocked the grill that bars its most precious volumes from the profane hands of Freshmen. Another treasure joins the first editions of Thomas Hardy and the autographed works of Henry James...