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Complete humanitarians were vexed to learn that a joker clause will prevent the application of this statute to silk mills and machinery factories...
...lorries and trains they had poured into Epsom Downs; they stood in the rain, an immense rubber-coated army, silently disliking each other. "All umbrellas down," said a voice. Up and down the ranked lines, a mile and a half long, of that steaming host, black bubbles of silk obediently collapsed; bookmakers put away their last tickets; touts and tipsters, who had offered the winner for as low as a bob, began to wonder who would win, while lords, ladies, greengrocers, and "Barts" felt alike an exhilaration that shook them like a low incessant fever. The horses had begun...
...there was a green stain on her breast. She made to give it to Guy Puncheon as he left Wales to let his half-gypsy blood race free and find their fortune. But it dropped between them, which may have been the omen. Guy found it, pouched it in silk against his travels, had it when he came back for Danzel?but she was gone with her father, Shadrach, to California of the '50s. Happy the man, indeed! It took a staunch lad to go that journey, but Guy went it, by Panama. For months he roamed the roaring, gold...
...Pepper, would on a pure Wet and Dry issue have been Wet. And it is even likely that Mr. Pinchot got some normally Wet votes among the miners. The factors which tend to emphasize the Wetness of Vare's victory are that in Philadelphia 14 of the 15 silk-stocking wards, which ordinarily the local machine is sure to find opposing it, turned round and voted for Mr. Vare, and that in the whole state, despite the opposition of nearly every newspaper, despite the fact that the Philadelphia machine has little power outside its bailiwick, there were enough votes...
...silk was valued at $396,286,000, a 21% gain. (Rayon, artificial silk, increased 124.7%; silk waste...