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...word! I refuse to apologize!" he shrilled, emphasizing his exclamations with cane thumps. "I am sufficient of an Englishman not to be content to see my country and my people bled white for the benefit of other countries far more prosperous than ourselves. You are all just electioneering, just tub-thumping!" Impressively, on behalf of the entire Cabinet, a statement was read out, deploring Mr. Snowden's "wanton and reckless act," and affirming that "the Balfour Note is the foundation of the Government's policy." At this point political dopesters freely opined that Pixie Snowden's rashness...
...Buffalo, Janitor John H. Olst, 22, died in his bath tub last week from a combination of escaping gas and drowning. A few days before he had been rescued from going over Niagara Falls with a capsized, boat...
Fastidious, she may well have stepped from the bath and dressing room by Ely Jacques Kahn of Manhattan. There the walls are glass, the tub is black, the finish is silvery...
...sold his patent-rights in a bath-tub enamelling process. He raised $100,000. His first factory was a barn in his back yard; his first workman...
President Polk was the first to marvel at gas illumination (1849). Mrs. Fillmore installed the first bath tub and cook stove in 1851. The stove brought protests from her Negro cook who preferred the huge open basement fireplace with its cranes and hooks. In spring and summer the Fillmore family moved over to higher Georgetown, "because the marshes between it [the White House] and the River made malaria inevitable." President Pierce first benefited from a central heating plant...