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...among them they talk about a better world and they knock you down when they get you in the lobby. The worst thing in this world you could have at this moment would be total disarmament. The greatest enemies of peace are the pacifists. . . . You might as well get rid of the police in London but you keep them because you want...
Subsequent developments showed the "defeat" of the Government to be so convenient to Premier Poincaré and President Millerand as to give rise to rumors that the whole thing was a put-up job, staged by M. Poincaé in order to get rid of the unpopular Finance Minister de Lasteyrie and equally unpopular Minister of Agriculture Cheron...
Austria. Austria was reprimanded for attempting to get rid of League control. She was told that the terms of her loan, providing for budget control, must be carried out until her finances were finally stable...
...anything that has happened in my IS years of administration experience. You students are lazy. You loaf, you gamble,* you spend weekends in big cities, and then you wonder why we don't want you here. We don't want loafers here, and we will get rid of you as fast as we find you out. Student evils in this university must...
...Cartwright, his junior curate, who was always suggesting something to do, such as founding a Men's Club or starting a Sunday afternoon service for men alone. He shrank from Jackman also, who came to him with the tortures of his soul. Finally he found a way out. He rid himself of an unpleasant sister by inviting her down when Queningford was at its dullest. He devolved his parish work on Miss Lambert. Jackman left him. He promoted Cartwright away. Then he married Molly Beauchamp, a rich widow, and was able to leave for good. But though everything appeared...