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...yard. The result is the present interminable struggle, in which Paraguay has so far been victorious, having almost completely demolished the southern army of Bolivia just prior to the signing of the truce. Bolivia, however, has taken advantage of the truce to recuperate, banish the peace party, and get rid of the German general, Kundt. Apparently, she is now ready to enter the struggle with renewed energy...
...eccentricity, pardonable but peculiar. Europe will fall back on her pristine direct negotiations, and the major nations will be disembarrassed of the nagging idealism of the smaller club members, free once more to pursue their devious ways without fear of interruption or inconvenient cross-examination. Il Duce will be rid of a contradiction which has weighed sorely upon him from the first: the contrast of his abhorrence of parliamentarism at home, and his acceptance abroad of the super-parliament of the League. France will be shorn, it appears, of the universal sanction of the Versailles Treaty which the League...
...comprehensive knowledge of the thought and customs of all times, and that comprehensive knowledge he manifestly does not have. He gets around this shortcoming, and incidentally improves the product immensely, by leaving Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare, and Jesus Christ out of the work. No expedient so simple can rid him either of his appalling ignorance of grammar, or of his incredibly jejune fancy. Yet there is in this work an ideology for above that of the common popular work; the "Outline of Heaver" would make a good Christmas present for anyone's recalcitrant goody...
...assassination of King Nadir Shah of the Afghans at Kabul, the capital of that peculiar nation. Though in natural sympathy with all monarchs who leave their thrones in such precipitous manner, one's grief is slightly lessened for this great soul by the recollection that it was Nadir who rid himself of the obnoxious Ahmad Shah by the simple expedient of blowing him from the muzzle of his biggest cannon...
...table... he looked over the class in silence... without exhibiting any pleasurable emotion whatsoever. At length he spoke: I'm not accustomed to make valedictories, but one seems called for this time.' He stopped... and spoke with restrained emphasis. 'I've--been--counting--the hours till I got rid of you.' He paused to let that sink in; then castigated the class... for their disrespect and ill conduct... He concluded: 'But perhaps this indicates a better disposition: and I will say this: I will try to think as well of you as I can, for the rest of my life...