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...such a note been addressed to the U. S., French, or Italian Government by the British it would have constituted an insult, only to be avenged by war. Paradoxically the mild, peace-propagating Sir Austen Chamberlain was obliged to sign this note as Foreign Secretary. His was another slice of the Cabinet Compromise (see below...
...lifted his flabbiness as it spread, like a batter of yeasted dough, over his hips and thighs. Then they cut* ?two curving slashes to form an ellipsis almost three feet long horizontally across his abdomen. This released a section of skin and fat that looked most like a slice of a huge pumpkin. It weighed (with other scoopings of fat) 31 pounds, and left a yellow gap across Mr. Phillips's belly, which the surgeons promptly closed by lifting flesh up off the thighs and nether parts to the steadier waist line. In three weeks he can be back...
Contemplation of Death. When potent men feel Death creeping upon them, when they realize that the state inheritance tax will cut a large slice out of their estate, then they may well be moved to trim down their worldly goods with deeds of philanthropy. In Wisconsin they heretofore had to time their charity six years before they died. But those days have gone: last week the Supreme Court reversed the Wisconsin courts' opinions which had held valid a state inheritance tax on gifts made within six years before the death of the donor. Such gifts were formerly considered...
...have been successful, financially. But Mr. Barry is a success. Confidently, he holds definite opinions: he must have a year in which to write a play; Terence is his idea of a good playwright; he refuses to limit himself to one or two special themes; realism, "a slice of life," means nothing in the theatre. He detests being described as "whimsical." Yet that adjective better than any other, perhaps, describes the art that is making enthusiastic audiences smile and sigh these fall evenings at the Booth Theatre...
While still Carl of Denmark, he became known as "the sailor prince." From his 13th year he was constantly aboard some Danish warship? used to go off by himself and chew at a great slice of coarse rye bread to keep down his seasickness...