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Several of His Majesty's ministers and a sprinkling of potent financiers had gathered in David Lloyd George's library, for what reason none of them knew. Drawing out his watch, stepping over to the tall casement window, the spry Welshman dramatically flung the window wide. "I am going to count three," said he with his eye on the second hand. "After the third count listen, listen for all you're worth!" One, two, three-straining ears caught from far away, from a battlefield on the other side of the English channel, a faint sound pitched awesomely...
...filled with theatre-goers, began to amuse himself by blowing smoke rings into their faces. Driver John Reiss asked La Carta to throw away his cigaret. La Carta refused. John Reiss stopped the bus, prepared to take La Carta to the street. La Carta knocked John Reiss against a window-glass, which crashed. La Carta then ripped off a section of the guard rail, flailed about him, pursued John Reiss. While women shrieked, men went to John Reiss's aid, pummeled La Carta until Jamaica police reserves came. The bus was disabled...
...cost the escort of one of Boston's winter buds one half dollar to learn that entrance to University Hall should not be made through a window. The woman in the, case desired a copy of the dean's list of students for use as a social register at her coming presentation. But the key which had been given to her for lawful trespass failed to unlock the ancient portal...
...escort volunteered to storm the window. He was neither here nor there when a Yard watchman apprehended the visible portion of his body. University officials seemed to be satisfied with...
...sign away his soul in the Black Man's Book. Imagine having for your study a room finished in dark oak panelling, cupboards thigh high, and book shelves on up to the ceiling, with chimneypiece to match-all flooded with sunshine from the spacious are of a bow window. The House Master's residence at Dunster fronts the river. In Lowell House the Master is not so lucky, but the architects have consoled him most successfully with a brick-walled garden close, its lawn shaded by two elms and a buckeye tree, and descended to by a short flight...