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...universal tendency in such cases to shower sympathy on the workers, whose pickets are broken up, whose assemblies are forbidden, and whose political activity is curtailed. Much sympathy is doubtless deserved, but it is a mistake to assume that the operators have no reasonable case. The cut throat competition of small independent mines demands of owners a drastic economy even in prosperous times. When conditions are poor and orders scarce that need is even more pressing. Wages must be cut if the mines are to operate at all; and then as always, the present impasse develops...
...with musical accompaniment, by the matador himself. Then the matador takes the bull alone, plays him with the muleta (red cloth), kills him with a sword. If the crowd approves a matador and his suertes (manoeuvres), there are rhythmic chants of "Olé! Olé!" A bad performance brings a shower of cushions and curses. Says Hemingway: "Now the essence of the greatest emotional appeal of bullfighting is the feeling of immortality that the bullfighter feels in the middle of a great faena and that he gives to the spectators. He is performing a work of art and he is playing with...
...down to City Hall. There's a statement there for you." And the Mayor went up to his apartment, tried to tele phone the news to his wife on Long Island (she was out), took a cold shower, went...
...Martin entered the Carmelite Convent at 15, many & many a pilgrim has journeyed. Fulfilled long ago by scores of miracles was the Little Flower's prediction that "Après ma mart je ferai tomber une pluie de roses" (After my death I will cause to fall a shower of roses). In gratitude, and for spiritual love, many francs, pounds and dollars have been given to the Carmelites at Lisieux in whose daily prayers all subscribers are remembered. At Lisieux last week there was tangible result of this giving. Dedicated was the crypt of a great basilica which...
These latter seven units will particularly excite the curiosity of the reunion visitors. The sight of panelled rooms, with private study and bath, telephone and shower; dining halls, and well-stocked libraries, prompts inevitably the liturgical refrain, "Why, when I was in college," and perhaps the queries: can the undergraduate afford this luxury? and has this House Plan benefited...