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...Union, the Vagabond realizes that a generation has grown up which knows not Copey, now grandiloquently Emeritus. Through the honeyed sentimentality of the Copy legend, there emerges from Hollis only a slight figure covered with a derby and an air of complete detachment. When the day arrives and the raw recruits upsurp the mellow places, the vagabond fears that Copey will visualize with even more complacency his famous headlines: "Hollis a Holocaust, Copey a Crisp...
...Tuesday was plainly a raw, wet and characteristically a Democratic day. . . . I have constantly maintained the Republicans would encounter disaster this year. . . . The next two years will contain an amplitude of difficulty for the Administration...
...spouse, the Queen of Queens, their Coronation was almost a coming out party. She is a chunky, chocolate amazon, he a small, slender, olive-skinned African Disraeli who astutely keeps her hidden. But they have much in common. Both looked on with glistening-eyed approval as "The Feast of Raw Meat" began. Lowing oxen had been driven into the courtyard of the palace until it was almost full. His Majesty's loyal soldiers were to eat first. Beaming upon these fine fellows, Power of Trinity I personally opened the courtyard gate. In swarmed the hungry troopers, fell upon...
...Englishmen, Scotchmen, Welshmen. If Great Britain would be willing to make the Empire wall quite high, the Dominions said in effect, then they would be willing to make their little walls quite low. Point: by this arrangement the Mother Country would buy much more in the way of raw materials from her Dominions than at present (because Argentine, U. S. and Russian offerings would be shut out by the Empire wall), and she would sell more of her manufactured products than at present to the Dominions (because they are willing to lower their present tariffs somewhat in her favor...
...took their children to France during the War, did relief work till 1919. In 1921 Mrs. Fisher was appointed a member of Vermont's State Board of Education. She is one of the five judges of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Other books: The Brimming Cup, Rough-Hewn, Raw Material, The Home-Maker, Her Son's Wife...