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The road now seemed clear to the attainment by trade unions of freedom from court interference in struggles against employers a judicial laissez-faire. The political program initiated in 1906 seemed to be bearing fruit. The drift into politics, since 1906, has differed essentially from that of earlier periods.
Arrived at the edge of the stream, the crocodiles dragged the poor girl out, and forced her into the water, despite her struggles, for, thinking she was going to be drowned, she screamed with terror; but lo and behold! no sooner had her feet touched the water than it divided before her, and, rising up on either side, showed a path leading to the bottom of the river, down which the bridal party disappeared, leaving the bride's father, who had accompanied her so far, upon the bank, very much astonished at the marvellous sight.
Writing in 1839, and looking back upon the struggles of his early manhood, he thus described the circumstances in which the Review originated: "One day we happened to meet in the eighth or ninth story or flat in Buccleugh Place, the elevated residence of the then Mr. Jeffrey. I proposed that we should set up a Review; this was acceded to with acclamation. The motto I proposed for the Review was
She loved him, and to her fond eyes he seemed more worthy of her love than any man she had ever before known. But she had not passed beyond her sense of truth and duty, and the feeling came to her that she must go away at once and engage in that most pathetic of all struggles that fall to woman's lot.
He spent no time in struggles to rouse latent powers; he never attempted to make that better which was already good, nor often to mend what he must have known to be faulty.
"Yes, my dear, there is so much that is good in the worst of us, and so much that is bad in the best and perhaps she struggles with temptations which never assail you." Jean's lips were set in an obstinate line. "Daddy was always saying things like that about Hilda." "Well, we men are apt to be charitable to beauty in distress."
The boy doubled up, like a grub worm covered with ants, fighting, scraping, twisting, squirming. He writhed, beat, scratched, this great hundred and sixty pound animal fighting an enemy that would weigh about twenty to the gram. He heard a shout from Caradoc, a question from Greer, then his insane struggles carried him under the surface of the clammy seaweed.
That would have set Ayers off dead against it, and we had to muzzle Lafe until Ayers had committed himself. The struggles of the two editors to outdo each other have been titanic. When Simpson put in a steam engine, Ayers mortgaged his plant and got one of the new gasoline engines just then being introduced into an unhappy world.
The young and pretty woman, well dressed and attractive, can get all the chivalry she wants. She will have seats offered her on street cars, men will hasten to carry her parcels, or open doors for her; but the poor old woman, beaten in the battle of life, sick of life's struggles, and grown gray and weather-beaten facing life's storms what chivalry is shown her?
The "Dart" now set again at her gaff that broad field which had been lowered during the conference, and which had floated in triumph through the hazards and struggles of a thousand combats. No answering emblem, however was exhibited from the peak of her adversary.
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