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...breathing he inhales air, but only under protest, as his taste is for something less invigorating. Not having the means of diluting the stuff, however, he is obliged to use it full strength, at the risk of actually becoming robust. In dining, when excessively hungry, he has been known to look at a lily in a glass of water for fully five minutes, and then waddle away and loosen his waistcoat. But such gluttony is very rare with the great aesthete, and ordinarily a hasty glance at a photograph of a sandwich is all he feels warranted in taking...
...Senate yesterday Mr. Hoar presented a protest from the National Woman Suffrage Association of Massachusetts against disfranchising the women of Utah, unless the men of that territory be also disfranchised...
...short of the object aimed at, and even stronger discipline has held few terrors for youths bent on a good time. The students have looked upon the quiet village people as victims foreordained to suffer the whims, and freaks, and deviltries of college men. When the villagers presumed to protest and grumble, punishment fell upon them. The midnight rowdyism of the collegians was suffered in silence, howsoever many terrors attached, but the outrageous proceedings of the last night went beyond the average, and the villagers were awakened by the shock to a new sense of their own consequence, their...
...meeting was held in London yesterday to protest against the outrages committed upon the Jews in Russia. A large meeting for the same purpose was held in New York last evening...
...general cries of grievance in the College press do not include a protest against an evil which is in every one's mouth from the beginning to the end of the year. I refer to the schedule of prices at the University Bookstore...