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...train the weary M. Cai-llaux spoke to reporters. Some one told him of having paused before a window in Washington where pictures of the French Debt mission were displayed and of having heard a woman say: "Oh, how sly they look!" "Ah yes!" exclaimed M. Caillaux, with a weary irony. "The Wizard! It is always the same. All people believe that foreigners would eat them if they could...
...window of his palace appeared King Alfonso, to receive a frenzied ovation from his people. The roars of shirtless .peons and the cheers of hidalgos forgetful of their dignity drowned his Majesty's words in praise of General Primo de Rivera, "the Conqueror of Ajdir...
...foot-passenger in a vacant street (for it was earliest morning) heard a scream from a shuttered birdshop, and peered in to see fire strutting and pecking there like a great red cock while 200 canaries fluttered on the shelves, dogs pawed their wire stalls, and in the window a Brazil ian parrot cried out over and over in the terrible voice of a man unnerved by fear. Firemen broke down the door, took out the dogs, some alive, some dead; the 200 gay canaries, all dead; the parrot, dead...
...From the window of his Faculty Club H. C. Sproul writes for the October "Scribner's" a whimsical defense of the mind which meanders through college without marking time to the beat of contemporary life. And he contents himself with that defense rather than with an attack upon the deum machinae of the university. In his opinion this type of spirit is ordained by its very being to wander through life, entering no fixed abode, enjoying perhaps the feel of a book, the form of a thought, the swing of a measure. A foe of the heaviness in living...
...business of being a waiter in New York is no joke. Last week one member of the profession was precipitated from the ninth story of a hotel by a group of jovial actors singing "Out the window he must go"; and now comes the still more painful report that sixty others were held up in a cafe and despoiled of $12,000 in tips, a pint of whiskey, and a pair of new shoelaces...