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...found the crater of Vesuvius swarming with billions of ladybugs. . . . I was taken for a Frenchman in Damascus and bombarded with rotten fruit . . . . No wonder! Near there I saw 300 Senegalese soldiers riding along on camels and lashing at the faces of passing Syrians with long whips. A fine way to pacify them! . . . I visited Enrico Caruso's tomb while in Italy, and was surprised to find his perfectly embalmed corpse lying in a glass sarcophagus, clad in evening clothes. . . . He almost appeared alive. . . The attendant who raised the American flag which covered the sarcophagus demanded one lira...
...have been trying to force medical men who are rotten writers to use typewriters. I guess you would come under that rule. It doesn't strike me as a fair deal to your patients that your writing should not be so legible that any chemist could read it. Suppose it were urgent and none but Blank could read the writing and Blank's store was closed. You would sign a death certificate just so. A nod is as good as a wink, and this note may lead to some intelligibility...
...that he will occupy the newly acquired castle in person; in which case, he will be able to entertain distinguished foreigners by the score who eare to listen to his diagnosis of the war and his reminiscences of how Margot Asquith knocked his foot out of the stirrup on Rotten...
...During my first state visit to England I used to ride in Rotten Row, Hyde Park, every morning at 8:30. One morning a lady on horseback dashed up against my horse and knocked my foot from the stirrup. I sent an aide after her to make inquiries. She came back blushing and asked my pardon. That evening King Edward said to me: 'So you met Miss Tennant in Rotten Row after all. She made a bet last night that she would introduce herself...
...information from reaching the people. L delivered an address over the municipal radio station pointing out that Mr. Walker as a State Senator and a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture had appeared privately as attorney for the -% meat packers, who had in their possession time and again rotten hog livers and pigs' heads, frozen spotted eggs, putrid spareribs and beef brains, and pork snouts in an advanced stage of putrefaction...