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Hearing that another entire trainload of students were about to leave Shanghai, President Chiang wired orders that the train must not leave, whereat the students threatened to wreck the station. After furious wrangling Shanghai railroad officials pretended to yield. Students cheered as their train chuffed out of Shanghai station, raged when it was shunted onto a sidetrack at Chinkiang, 50 miles from Nanking, and left there by an engine which absconded before the students could lynch the fireman and engineer...
...began. By fives and tens of thousands, up went the price. Clemenceau each time explaining that the Times had gone higher. When $80,000 was reached, Publisher Boni telephoned from Paris to Manhattan. He suggested to the Times that they were cutting each other's throats. Whereat the Times expressed great surprise because it had not been bidding at all. Off went Publisher Boni well content to let the Tiger whistle...
Having thus rudely probed his tvillim, the young men apologized to Grand Rabbi Leib Twersky publicly whereat he observed, "This is a strange country but I like "it." There were no further smuggling arrests last week...
...leave; his fiancée, who has been living at his father's home, no longer loves the soldier but she conceals this fact until after she has spent the night with him. In the morning, the soldier's father berates his son for a seduction; whereat the soldier berates in his father selfish and truculent senescence which so blatantly permits the young...
Again silent Banker Stillman speaks. In England, he learned that Mr. Morgan was living alone. So he paid a call one hot June morning. "Morgan asked, 'What brought you here to see me, Stillman?' I answered, 'Oh, I thought you might be lonely.' Whereat Morgan jumped up from the table and ran around and kissed me on the cheek...