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...elected on April 10?by a huge plurality. But granting this, there remains the question whether Paul von Hindenburg can possibly live out a second term, at the end of which he would be 91. Well might Frenchmen cry last week "Vive Hindenburg!" for the President's life is precious to order and peace...
...business and more than 60% of world business. From 1880 to 1925 the company was almost entirely a one-man affair, Eastman personally making every decision of import. In 1925 he retired as president and general manager, became chairman of the board. Said he: "The remaining years are very precious to me and I am now doing what the movies call a 'fade-out.'" A thoroughgoing philanthropist, he gave away some $75,000,000, probably retained only a small Kodak interest. Major gifts were: to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, $19,500,000 (he was Technology's "Mysterious Mr. Smith...
...clique of thieves in India have in their throats pouches in which they hide small but precious loot. Pressed into military service, such pouched thieves serve as carriers of small documents. They develop their throat pouches by partially swallowing a pellet tied to a string. The training begins in childhood, continues for years with a bigger and bigger pellet, until a useful pouch takes shape...
...vineyards. They must organize and play politics, to save wine from the greedy budgets and siccant reformers. Imposts, tariffs, taxes, embargoes must fall to make way for the return of Falernian and Caecuban. Propaganda must teach the gospel of Bacchus, and the world be taught again to hold precious the gifts of the god. Meanwhile, liqueurs, the misbegotten brats of Mercury and Ceres, hold sway. Men drink, but they feel the touch of Circe's wand, not the warming joys of gentle Liber. The noisome juniper has dethroned the luscious grape...
...real duke in his mere gold coronet is usually able to slip past tourists unobserved at the opening of Parliament, bold barons bearing the brunt. A new ducal coronet may be bought from Cartier in London for about $1,000, but a headgear of some sort set with precious stones might be sold to the right tourist as a "ducal coronet...