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The title of the operetta has little or nothing to do with the show. Faint heart ne're won fair lady, says the heroine. And the hero shows her just how little faint hearted the son of a French general can be. The show is not going to sell on...
"The American Legation at Peking last summer arranged to buy its winter supply of coal from a mine about 20 miles from Peking. The railroad was under the control of Wu Pei-fu, the then dominant war lord. His underlings demanded a 'squeeze' of $2 per ton for...
"In addition the Legation must pay Wu $25 per car, and the village where this general was quartered demanded $1.80 per car additional 'squeeze.'
Nevertheless, one mad morning last week, bears tried to break it below that figure. Thousands of shares were offered and promptly taken up at 52. A Nash post, around which practically every trader tried to crowd, was improvised on the Floor. Ever and anon some bedraggled trader would manage to...
† The theory that numerous witnesses should be present at royal births came to its perfect flower in the France of Louis XVI. Marie Therese Charlotte, the first child born to that King and Marie Antoinette entered the world in the presence of everyone who could squeeze into her bedroom...