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I'll drop you a line of course; I'll send you newspaper clippings that speak of me, and you'll see you have a friend who does not forget you and who sends you greetings from London, Saint Petersburg, or New York any one of the corners of this world which many believe so large yet where I am unable to stir without encountering things that bore me." "May that moment be long delayed!" said Rafael.
The same problem presented itself from a different direction. Often, Mr. Pulitzer would take out of his pocket a bundle of papers newspaper clippings, letters, statistical reports, and memoranda of various kinds. Handing them to his companion he would say: "Look through these and see if there is a letter with the London post mark, and a sheet of blue paper with some figures on it."
But it echoed in the tones of a thousand golden hopes and dismal fears in the whirling brain of Average Jones as he walked back to his offices. Two days later he sat at his desk, in a murk of woe. Nor word nor sign had come to him from Miss Sylvia Graham. He frowned heavily as Simpson entered the inner sanctum with the usual packet of clippings. "Leave them," he ordered. "Yes, sir."
There was a pile of newspaper clippings in which his name was mentioned with praise for his sustaining power as a pillar of finance, for his judicious benevolence, for his support of wise and prudent reform movements, for his discretion in making permanent public gifts "the Weightman Charities," one very complaisant editor called them, as if they deserved classification as a distinct species.
Much of this information had been gathered from newspaper clippings that her old uncle, living in London, had mailed to her.
However, we won't quarrel about it now; we'll pay her a call in the morning." He ran his eyes over the clippings again, then added, "There are just two more points connecting Radnor Gaylord with the murder that need explaining: the foot-prints in the cave and the match box.
Modern library conveniences are presented in so handy and presentable shapes that the room may be perfectly equipped as a literary workshop without crowding it, or detracting from its appearance. It will be well to utilize one or more of the drawers of the desk as a file for clippings.
Ambassador Gerard, who went to the Foreign Office daily, to try to convince the officials that they were antagonising the whole world by their attitude on the Lusitania question, returned to the Embassy one day after a conference with Zimmermann and began to prepare a scrap book of cartoons and clippings from American newspapers.
I protested that I had never dreamed of him giving me a job; I had come to him simply for advice, and perhaps an introduction to the real powers. Mr. Carmody gave an uneasy glance over his shoulders to a large desk in the corner, where sat a tall, thin man who seemed absorbed in a game of checkers played with newspaper clippings. Mr.
'That's journalism, or clippings from a bilious essay; it won't do for the House, he said. 'Revile the House to the country, if you like, but not the country to the House. When I begged him to excuse my absurdity, he replied: 'It's full of promise, so long as you're silent. But to be silent was to be merely an obedient hound of the whip.
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