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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...menians formed guerrilla movements in eastern Van (the Armenakans, in 1885) and in Russia. Radical nationalist parties were established by Russian-... ...guerrilla movements in eastern Van (the Armenakans, in 1885) and in Russia. Radical nationalist parties were established by Russian-Armenian emigran... ...5) and armed uprisings followed (in 1894-5). The Dashnaks even invaded Turkey from Russia in 1896 - a demonstrative act which resulted in the slaug... ...the warships of the Great Powers stood idly by. In 1912-3 the Great Powers, led by Russia, pressured Turkey to cease its mistreatment of the Armeni... ...t our America can only be ruled through a well-managed, shrewd despotism." The National Geographic describes how: "William Tudor, the Ameri... ...er, Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of an illustrious figure in Burmese history, a national hero - Aung San, who was murdered in 1947. Aung San... ...uded that they are about to be crushed. On June 20, they regrouped in an indoor tennis court and vowed not to disband until France had a constit... ...itution and the king's powers are drastically curtailed. This became known as the "Tennis Court Oath". On July 14, 1789 crowds stormed the Basti... ... to these illnesses as they were never exposed to them. But recent findings by a team of anthropologists, economists and paleopathologists who ha...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...ew York Cutting School Spring Street, Wlllamstown Prank L. Siazenger Golf, Tennis and Hockey Supplies 8 West 28th St., New York H.E, Kinsman& Go. Coll... ...t Present Evils Mr. Iloiiior Fulks of New York oity, viooohairinuii of thn National Child Labor o(jMiinitleo, addreBHed tlio Good Governmen t club in ... ...Next Door to Watson's N. H. SANFORD, Proprietor Spring Street WILLIAMSTOWN National Bank Capital, --•... 150,000 Surplus and Net Profits, ij.ocxj Usua... ... delivered. Q. 5. Azhderian Dealer in Pine Footwear, Gent's Furnish- ings, Tennis, Athletic and Gymnasium Goods. Agent for Collins and Fairbanks' Cele... ...r Surgeon to City Hospital. Oowlin Block Nertli Adams WRIGHT & DITSON Lawn Tennis Football Basketball Hockey Sticks Hockey Skates Skating Shoes Sweate... ...Next Door to Watson's N. H. SANFORD, Proprietor Spring Street WILLIAMSTOWN National Bank Capital, ^50,000 Surplus and Net Profits, 15,000 Usual bankin... ...t. The first speaker, K. H. Case, chose as his subject "The Situa- tion in Russia. " Ho pointed out the fact that the great problem which confronts th... ...ssia. " Ho pointed out the fact that the great problem which confronts the Russian peas- ant today is lack of land. In his ignorance he cannot see bey... ...f tbe lead- ing scientiiio sooitiea of tbe United gtotes, Canada, England. Russia amLQannaoy, and a. authority on entniuuiugical Btl' facts of his lif...

...ountry. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue generated by local and national ad sales, subscriptions, and voluntary contributions for use of its website. Both Sawyer Library and the College Archives maintain more than a century's worth of publicly accessible, bound volumes of the Record. The ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...g fulfilled as the motivation for the trashing of values.‖ —―In the same line of thinking, initiations into clubs, fraternities or sport teams ... ... culture, they live by the laws of their own characters. In your country the self actualized people‘s values may often be different from your nation... ...ng those who threaten us with their own brand of power--different gang colors, a policeman's uniform, an expensive car, or even a new pair of tennis... ...ets a pie in the face?--because we are better than him, It didn't happen to us. Why do we live and die with our hometown football and baseball teams?... ...ntries in the world. They live well. They have the money to take expensive vacations. Yes they have power-- through their individual and their nation... ... the oldest Hindu wife to lord it over all the younger women in the family or the use of guns and bombs to enhance the power of the tribal or nation... ...ial. Sometimes it is bullying, sometimes it is fighting or killing randomly. But larger violent power outbursts may be political. Skinheads in Russia... ...ave trained to attack minorities, primarily blacks. Their rationalizations are that they are protecting the purity of the race or protecting Russia... ... ―At the bottom of the happiness scales we have such countries as Zimbabwe, Congo and Burundi and the former Soviet republic, Moldavia. Russia...

...TAXES 137 BALANCING THE BUDGET—TAXES FOR YOUR IDEAL SOCIETY 138 ECONOMIC GROWTH RATE 146 REAL WEALTH PER PERSON 147 BORROWING 147 BUDGET DEFICITS AND NATIONAL DEBTS 148 CRIMEANDITSCOSTS 150 FOREIGN AID AND GLOBILIZATION 152 4 WAR OR PACIFISM 152 THERE ARE NO ANSWERS 153 THINKING EFFECTIVELY155 HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW? 155 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 159 THEORY AS A STA...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...is an outstanding teacher and is still coaching an intercollegiate sports team. I met a world class medical professor in his 80s at Tromso University... ...ATION CONTROL SINGAPORE’S PROBLEM —“Lee Kuan Yew was the greatest national leader of the last few centuries. In his 31 years as Singapore‟s ... ...e and incomes for more gum chewing. Just look at your country. Would your national debt be less, your stock market higher, your dollar worth more, y... ...ntries, the drop in death rates and the typical high birth rates showed a national growth rate of 3.4% with an additional 1% from immigration . This... ...dn‟t have a workable plan. The Chinese Communists did, at least Deng did. Russia went backward economically after their revolution. China leapt forw... ... We aren‟t encouraging what the Chinese are doing, like identifying table tennis talents at age 4 or 5 then sending them on to special schools to dev... ...up learning. And they are taught about the arts and physical education and team sports. A major concern of our state education as well as our parenti... ...egal migrant worker problem than just taking the jobs of the citizens. In Russia, where they need more workers, there is a huge prejudice against non... ...ussia, where they need more workers, there is a huge prejudice against non-Russians. So it is different from the West where the illegals may be takin...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

.................................................... 163 BUDGET DEFICITS AND NATIONAL DEBTS ............................................................... ...ch inabilities be partly responsible for America‘s voting preferences for national offices? ―Is this the reason that President George W. Bus... ...r occupation. When you take courses in art history, music appreciation or tennis you are preparing to enjoy your non-working life. When you are faci... ...your children will be saddled with huge taxes to help pay off the immense national debt that resulted from your under-taxation, would you vote for t... ...f murder, stealing and lying. ―Atheists make up a high percent of the Russian and Czech populations, probably because atheistic Marxism was a fa... ...for example, there are 22% who are atheists and 16% who are agnostics. In Russia 32% were atheistic or agnostic, but of the 58% who said they were C... ...argely a question of education. Of course tradition is also a factor. The Russians and Chinese are quite atheistic, probably because of their more r... ...that will predict society‘s needs and potentials. Formula One auto racing teams have computer projections that guide their decisions regarding combi... ...t color. ―A few years ago a fatwa was issued against a female tennis player who was a Muslim because she wore short skirts, but no fatwa...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...ed Cape Kennedy because Kennedy was the most virile President who created this National effort to get to the Moon. The most virile mission won. The... ...tomic nuclear meltdown. The true meaning of the name Chernobyl comes from the Russians cherishing the supposed nobility of the atom, and cherishing ... ...ssians cherishing the supposed nobility of the atom, and cherishing their own Russian nobility. The ecological destruction of Russia stemmed from t... ...ty. The ecological destruction of Russia stemmed from these two sources. If Russia had not bankrupted itself by trying to match the United States ... ...-created abstract lines and actual human conditions. After every war: the new national boundaries which are enforced; merely become a cause for the ... ...that the richest corporations can merge into even bigger, more powerful multi- national corporations; so more, and more money is sucked out of all the... ...frustration, and misery. The only reason there is any fun at all in playing tennis is because one of the rules is that you can only keep on playin... ... the lines of the court. If that rule did not exist, then nobody would play tennis to ‘win’ or play anything competitively. THE PATH OF SPLITNESS... ...world actually refused to compete with the other half… What if you went to a tennis court and nobody wanted to play to win at all… What if all they...

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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

...leared his throat and then asked, “Father Salvi, I would like you to join our team, that is, if you are willing?” “I came only to deliver a message... ...,” Marian said, “I think Father Salvi would make an excellent addition to the team, if he gets permission.” She then asked, “ Father, would you like ... .... Brand’s reputation as one of the young, savvy political 'Turks' grew into national prominence, and was often asked for quotes from political 'ha... ...n't solve everything at once, but we can stop the drug trade, if we make it a national priority policy." Alex waved off the rest of the reporters cl... ...icy." Alex waved off the rest of the reporters clamoring to get their face on national television. "You'll have many more opportunities for your qu... ... Nations would be pushing hard for full membership into the Alliance, and the Russian's staunch opposition to it, favoring a 120 J.Cross/Artemis ... ...p Alliance instead, with several escape clauses attached. The talk of another Russian revolution was gathering like dark clouds on the horizon. The o... ...k clouds on the horizon. The old KGB and the disgruntled military against the Russian people could amount to another Stalinesque slaughter. The se... ...me soon, and dinner is almost ready." "Okay, Mom," Joey said, and tucked his tennis shoes behind the sofa. "How was school today?" Joey's mom call...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

... have been the approaches each country has taken to control or foster their national birth rates. The most startling and yet enlightening changes ha... ...ut health care. Socialized medicine sounded like a good idea. The British National Health Service has over a million people waiting for hospital ad... ...s the population increases—and ages. Even in rich Norway, a country with no national debt and a huge oil income, the main hospital of its capital ci... ...g everywhere from Dockweiler to Zuma, he needed a place to unwind. With the tennis court next to the house, the Universal Gym downstairs and the lake... ...o to college there is no sense going to a school without a top ten football team. When you played there did you ever score?” —“We scored a lot. We... ...icts that 25 European nations will have populations below what they are now. Russia will lose 31 million, Italy over 7 million, Poland almost 7 milli... ...cts of abuse. When professional football player Laveranues Coles told his team, then the world, that he had been sexually abused by his stepfather... ...e organizations like the CIA of the USA, FSB as the successor of the KGB in Russia, or the Israeli Mossad regularly kill others in their societies. ...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...foreign country, South Korea, which was his birth home and the source of his nationality. Now it was Kim Yang Kwam he kept thinking about in the bus. ... ...ecognized different buildings, and the curves of the street near a hard dirt tennis court. This was Ne Doc Dong. "Do you want me," said one, "or do yo... ...aphs of reciprocal eloquence would not be returned by someone clearly of her nationality. At last she would go away and the dinner would come for the ... ...ic is Rimsky's but they were playing music from that composer earlier. He is Russian, one of the best, I think." Sang Huin smiled at the acquaintance... ...g it right here." The radio music suddenly changed to classical music with a National Public Radio DJ. Gabriele waited a couple more minutes. "Goodb... ...es and wait for that person there. There were video pangs (VCR rooms); table tennis rooms; noripangs (Karaoke singing rooms); outdoor vendors and rest... ... bad. Better, she would have eagerly challenged Michael to a racket ball or tennis competition or played badminton or croquet with the whole family. ... ...uced and memorizing names that she would forget once out of there (one young Russian who exercised with Michael at a fitness center and had the most ... ...reeding. He was a busy little entrepreneur opening a fitness center with his Russian friend one month, an Internet cafe the next, and some minor inves...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Two

By: Thomas Carlyle

................................................... 216 Chapter 2.5.X. Petion-National-Pique. .............................................................. ..., regarnished into a golden Royal Resi- dence; and Lafayette with his blue National Guards lies encompassing it, as blue Neptune (in the language of p... ...rds in the Riding-hall, named Manege, close on the Tuileries: there does a National Assembly apply itself to the miraculous work. Successfully, had th... ...nd then out of doors, consider at the Hotel-de-Ville how Bailly, the great Tennis-Court swearer, again swears, to- wards nightful, with all the Munici... ...t the solemnity;— since the Centre Grenadiers rather grumble. Harangue of ‘Tennis-Court Club,’ who enter with far-gleaming Brass- plate, aloft on a po... ... Club,’ who enter with far-gleaming Brass- plate, aloft on a pole, and the Tennis-Court Oath engraved thereon; which far gleaming Brass-plate they pur... ...g Bouille asleep, all the while, in the Upper Village, and Choiseul’s fine team standing there at hay. No help for it; not with a King’s ransom: the h... ...ne out from Turin; there will be secret Convention at Vienna. Catherine of Russia beckons approvingly; will help, were she ready. Spanish Bourbon stir...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...reality till the alarm-clock rang, at seven-twenty. III It was the best of nationally advertised and quantitatively produced alarm-clocks, with all mo... ...d four hundred thousand inhabitants now—he could see the top of the Second National Tower, an Indi- ana limestone building of thirty-five stories. Its... ... our hands strictly off. And there’s another well-authenticated rumor from Russia that Lenin is dead. That’s fine. It’s beyond me why we don’t just st... ... afternoon. Keep forgetting it.” At the Simplex Office Furniture Shop, the National Cash Register Agency, he yearned for a dictaphone, for a typewrite... ...and smoke-misted billiard room, it is represented by baseball and football teams, and in the pool and the gymnasium a tenth of the members sporadicall... ...and prosperous grocer, one a Yankee carpenter, one a soda-clerk, and one a Russian Jewish actor The Russian Jew quoted Kautsky, Gene Debs, and Abraham... ... to the Game three times a week. Besides, fellow ought to support the home team.” He did go and support the team, and enhance the glory of Zenith, by ... ...turity. On Saturday they played golf, jeering, “As a golfer, you’re a fine tennis-player,” or they motored all Sunday afternoon, stopping at village l... ...itor and acquired an excellent man. Young Fritz was a curly-headed, merry, tennis-playing youngster. He made customers welcome to the office. Babbitt ...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...als, permitted her to experiment with her perilous versatility. She played tennis, gave chafing-dish parties, took a graduate semi- nar in the drama, ... ...n to a certi- fied Studio Party, with beer, cigarettes. bobbed hair, and a Russian Jewess who sang the Internationale. It cannot be reported that Caro... ... Confederation Generale du Travail, feminism vs. haremism, Chinese lyrics, nationalization of mines, Christian Sci- ence, and fishing in Ontario. She ... ...grounds. 40 Main Street The State Bank, stucco masking wood. The Farmers’ National Bank. An Ionic temple of marble. Pure, exquisite, solitary. A bras... ...laning-mill, and the Minniemashie House, and quite a share in the Farmers’ National Bank. Him and his wife are good sports—him and Sam and I go huntin... ...peace of the Thanatopsis at her third meeting (which covered Scandinavian, Russian, and Polish Literature, with remarks by Mrs. Leonard Warren on the ... ...erature, with remarks by Mrs. Leonard Warren on the sinful paganism of the Russian so-called church). Even before the entrance of the coffee and hot r... ...te flannel trou- 341 Sinclair Lewis sers. He suggested the ocean beach, a tennis court, any- thing but the sun-blistered utility of Main Street. A vi... ... Erik was independent and, without asking for her inspiration, planned the tennis tournament. It proved that he had learned to play in Minneapolis; th...

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The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton

... that Louisa’s relative, the Duke of St. Austrey, arrives next week on the Russia. He is coming to enter his new sloop, the Guinevere, in next summer’... ...ecause Kate Merry had had bronchitis. They were planning to lay out a lawn tennis court on the sands; but no one but Kate and May had racquets, and mo... ...rcher, getting up. “Look here—the fog’s lifting. If we made a dash for the National Gallery we might manage to catch a glimpse of the pictures.” THE N... ... riding, swimming, and trying her hand at the fascinating new game of lawn tennis; and when they finally got back to London (where they were to 136 T... ...nown no rival but croquet, was beginning to be discarded in favour of lawn-tennis; but the latter game was still considered too rough and inelegant fo... ...ew Englander shelters his farming imple- ments and visitors “hitch” their “teams.” Archer, jumping down, led his pair into the shed, and after tying t... ...low approach to the wharf among slipping horses, laden carts, vociferating teamsters, and then the startling quiet of the ferry-boat, where they would... ...met, and he thought he heard her say: “Y es, we’re sailing tomorrow in the Russia—”; then there was an unmeaning noise of opening doors, and after an ... ...erited her beauty. He was subsequently heard of in Constantinople, then in Russia; and a dozen years later American travellers were handsomely enterta...

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Ten Years Later

By: Alexandre Dumas

...o the ports of the Loire, came out of a byroad full of ruts and turned on that which the two horsemen were following. A man carrying a long switch wit... ... saw through an iron bar.” “Then my lord does not know that there are eight guards about him, four in his chamber, four in the antechamber, and that t... ... and wooden forks, pretending that as he had been informed that the duke was to pass all his life at Vincennes, he was afraid of his prisoner attempti... ...er leave him alone an instant.” La Ramee became, therefore, the duke’s dinner guest by compulsion—an eternal keeper, the shadow of his person; but La ... ...take the king and place him in the Hotel de Ville? It is a shame to leave him to be educated by our enemies, who will give him evil counsel; whereas, ... ... asked Aramis, “and how does he go to work to weed the parliament?” “Colonel Bridge,” replied the Spaniard, “is a retired wag- oner, a man of much sen... ... unlike the mantle worn by kings.” This was one of the humiliations which Mazarin made Anne undergo more frequently than any other, and one that bowed...

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Of Human Bondage

By: Somerset Maugham

...and spend the afternoon with white of egg and a glue- pot, patching up the Russia leather of some bat- tered quarto. He had many volumes of old trav- ... ...iversity where I shall try and get a chair of philology . And I shall play tennis and go to tea-parties.” He interrupted himself and gave Philip, very... ...her condescending attitude towards patrio- tism he had been adopted as the national poet, and seemed since the war of seventy to be one of the most si... ...emed since the war of seventy to be one of the most significant glories of national unity. The enthusiastic seemed in the wildness of the Walpurgisnac... ...ng theology in Heidelberg, but the other theologi- cal students of his own nationality looked upon him with suspicion. He was very unorthodox, which f... ...bathe and when he came home ate a magnificent din- ner. They were having a tennis party at the vic- arage in the afternoon and Miss Wilkinson put on h... ...on her face 179 W. Somerset Maugham was very becoming. Philip was fond of tennis. He served well and as he ran clumsily played close to the net: notw... ...ettled itself she looked round and gave the name of her piece. “A Drive in Russia.” There was a round of clapping during which she deftly fixed bells ... ...layer before he married, and there were photographs on the wall of various teams in self-conscious attitudes, with neatly plastered hair , the captain...

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A Child's History of England

By: Charles Dickens

...ut into him by the brave spirit of the Scottish people, who took this as a national insult, that he refused to come any more. Thereupon, the King furt... ...prisoners: who were all driven to London, tied together with ropes, like a team of cattle. Every one of them was hanged on some part or other of the s... ...oo fed the fire. All this the people bore, and more than all this yet. The national spirit seems to have been banished from the king dom at this time... ...der the Sultan and Bashaws of the East, or under the fierce old tyrants of Russia, who poured boiling and freezing water Charles Dickens 297 on them ... ...lar, how it comforted him, at that pass, to have assisted in reforming the national religion, a member of the Council was seen riding up on horseback.... ...rother in law, at the palace at Whitehall. There he played a great game at tennis, in his shirt, though it was very cold weather, and was seized with ...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

................................................... 323 Chapter 2.5.X. Petion-National-Pique. .............................................................. ...ncourt, de la Rochefoucault admire the English Constitu- tion, the English National Character; would import what of it they can. Of what is lighter, e... ...east there used to be, some communication with the interior deep; they are national Institutions in virtue of that. Had they even become personal Inst... ...ste of the whip to rearing cours- ers, which makes them rear worse! When a team of Twenty-five Millions begins rearing, what is Lomenie’s whip? The Pa... ...nt Bailly, aided by judicious Guillotin and others, has found place in the Tennis-Court of the Rue St. Francois. Thither, in long-drawn files, hoarse-... ... Strange sight was this in the Rue St. Francois, Vieux Versailles! A naked Tennis-Court, as the pictures of that time still give it: four walls; naked... ... us;—and now it is time to go to dinner. This, then, is the Session of the Tennis-Court, famed Seance du Jeu de Paume; the fame of which has gone fort... ...Rue de Clichy,’ far North, to wait there till wanted. Apparently a certain Russian Baroness de Korff, with Waiting-woman, Valet, and two Children, wil... ...ne out from Turin; there will be secret Convention at Vienna. Catherine of Russia beckons approvingly; will help, were she ready. Spanish Bourbon stir...

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Under the Deodars

By: Rudyard Kipling

.... That’s the case with every man up here who is at work. I don’t suppose a Russian convict under the knout is able to amuse the rest of his gang; and ... ...iffuse yourself, dear; and though all Simla knows your skill in managing a team ‘ ‘Can’t you choose a prettier word?’ ‘Team, of half-a-dozen, from The... ...ight, during which Bobby took brevet-rank as a ‘man’ at the women- swamped tennis-parties and tea-fights of the vil- lage, and, I daresay, had his joi... ...all that, he is a great man. If you call him “the he- roic defender of the national honor” one day, and “a brutal and licentious soldiery” the next, y... ...verything and improved nothing, from the whining Peisian-wheel by the lawn-tennis court to the long perspective of level road and the blue, domed tomb... ...nse (Orde hid a grin, which might or might not have been sympathetic), the National Congress movement, and other things in which, as a Member of Parli... ...ia is really like y’know, now that it has wakened into political life. The National Congress, in spite of Dawlishe, must have caused great excitement ... ...d strategic railway 134 Under the Deodars schemes as a protection against Russia.” “But there was never a special famine fund raised by special taxat... ...o polo on Tuesday: we want you badly to help to crumple up the Krab Bokbar team.” Orde explained that he had to go out into the District, and while th...

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Three Soldiers

By: John Dos Passos

...men in the door. Even now the memory of it, mixing with the strains of the national anthem made him feel important, truculent. “Squads right!” same an... ... of ma- chinery. Remember you are freer than we are. We are worse than the Russians!” “It is curious! … O but you must have some feeling of civilizat... ... in. The Red Cross sends supply trains to keep them at it … . I’m going to Russia if I can work it.” “But what about the Sorbonne?” “The Sorbonne can ... ...Henslowe. “Me for the first Red Cross Mission that goes to save starv- ing Russia … . Gee, that’s great. I’ll write you a postal from Moscow, Andy, if... ...at Coney,” said the Kid. Andrews did not answer. “Were you in the swimmin’ team or anything like that, Skinny, when you went to school?” “No … . It wo... ...ais ne vous derangez pas,” she said. A man with white flannel trousers and tennis shoes and a man in black with a pointed grey beard and amused grey e...

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