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"Logrolling?" said Mr. Britten. "Log-rolling?"
"In his intolerable self righteousness, [Sir John] reminds one of a teetotaler who all his life looked with wrathful disdain on any one who touched a drop of alcohol, however diluted, and suddenly when he was approaching his seventh decade took to drink, and you saw him rolling from one...
Willard on Napes. As the rail representatives were closing Phase ! of the I. C. C. hearings with long wails about carrier credit, President Daniel Willard of Baltimore & Ohio, one of the half dozen executives who started the rate-increase ball rolling last May, was inspecting his new Chicago & Alton property...
Ryall Springs, Ga., was ripe for salvation. Nothing had happened there for a long time; even the wicked women-chasers, cardplayers, boozers were bored, welcomed the prospect of a camp meeting. Everything went even better than Brother Lowe's cagey schedule had planned. People swarmed in from miles around...
The Author. Willa Sibert Cather looks and talks like a kindly, sensible Middle-Western housewife, stout, low-heeled, good at marketing and mending. Her motherly hats are fluttered by no mercurial wings. A spinster, there is nothing old maidish about her comfortable appearance; only her keen blue eyes belie her...