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He determined that the most elaborate float in the parade should be one which depicted Dorothy dousing the Wicked Witch with water. Because he was now as large as a human child, Simon was able to gather together the materials he needed in record time. Although he was hardly W.W. Denslow or Frank Kramer, Simon's artistic abilities were far superior to those of Dirk.
Denslow was no day-dreamer; he had a way of viewing things that was severe in its practicality. Now, I am in no sense a business man; you may already have suspected this truth. Mr.
It was very pleasing to hear Mrs. Denslow and Alice talk about these things with that enthusiasm peculiar to their sex. Until "our house" became a probability I did not really know with what rapidity it were possible for women-folk to discuss and to decide even the most insignificant details of the subject matter of their enthusiasm.
"Who knows," said Lethal, with a deceptive innocence of manner, "whether aristocracy itself be not founded in mesmerical deceptions?" "I think, Lethal," observed Adonaïs, "you push the matter. It would be impossible, for instance, even for his Highness, to make Honoria Denslow appear ugly." We all looked at Honoria, to whom the Duke leaned over and said,
Denslow, does not hesitate to express the opinion very emphatically that "as it is, in no country do the people feel such an overwhelming sense of the littleness of the men in charge of public affairs" as in the United States.
"Didn't seem to be northin' to say to fit the case." "Not after the way they took the truth when it was offered to 'em," agreed Hiram. "I didn't say anything out loud. I said it to myself, and it would have broke up the party if a little bird had twittered it overhead at a Sunday-school picnic." That day Jackson Denslow, pricked by a fee of ten dollars, made more searching investigation.
Denslow those two amiable and superior women had it definitely settled what the color of the window shades was to be and just how many brass-headed tacks would be required to fasten down the new Japanese rug with which it was proposed to adorn the hardwood floor of the library in the first story of "the addition" which had already been determined upon. But Mrs.
At the first corner he heard a second explosion, further away and to the east, but apparently no fire followed it. That, he learned later, was the City Club, founded by Anthony Cardew years before. The Denslow Bank was burning. The facade had been shattered and from the interior already poured a steady flow of flame and smoke.
"Were you at the door when the Duke entered?" "I think not; at least I cannot tell. When I first saw him, he was in the room, speaking with Madam Denslow." "Nalson, you have done wrong; no one should have entered unannounced. Send the doorkeeper to me." The doorkeeper came; a gigantic negro, magnificently attired. "Jupiter, you were at the door when the Duke of Rosecouleur entered?" "Yes, Sir."
"That's the sense of the boys, just the same," retorted Denslow, retreating a couple of steps. "'Delphus Murray is seasick, and two or three of the boys are gettin' so. We ain't enlisted for no seafarin' trip." "Don't you realize that we're on the high seas now and that you're talkin' mutiny, and that mutiny's a state-prison crime?" clamored the irate skipper.
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