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...afoul of the Benevolent Association. In his little Canal Street print shop, crusading Editor Jee's ink-brush splashed out pages of copy flaying the Association for "corrupt practices." Frightened advertisers pulled out of the Journal while Editor Jee raged at the Association for "sucking the blood and sweat out of the Chinese...
...years as official pumper of the Appleton Chapel organ gave him a good deal of anxiety for fear that the old bellows would leak faster than he could pump. "Many a drop of sweat I left in that old tower," he used to tell his grandchildren...
Baron Inouye, whose purpose seemed to be to bait the Premier and his Cabinet, then made the supposedly superpatriotic and Emperor-worshipping Defense Ministers sweat by demanding: "Will the Army and Navy drive this theory out of Japan...
...official pumper of the Appleton Chapel organ for 30 years, he used to supply the music-making wind every morning. "That was some job!" he asserted. "The old bellows leaked about as fast as I could pump. Many a drop of sweat I left in that old tower...
...achieves a state of grace before each performance by meditating alone for half an hour, and has never yet made an entrance to Gabriel's strident cue "Gangway for de Lawd God Jehovah" without breaking into a cold sweat. "If you got to thinking about it too much and let it get hold of you offstage as well as on," says he, "I don't think your sanity would stand it. It's a hard part to play." He has had to put up with a good deal of hysterical adoration. A friend of 50 years...