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He had brought home, as he always did on Saturday, a batch of ultra periodicals, among them the 'Fiery Cross, and his own eloquence was supplemented by the reading of excerpts from these lively columns. It was a combat of three to one, but the majority did little beyond throwing up hands at anything particularly outrageous. Adela said much less than usual.
Mr. Hamlin pointed out in his report the possibility that "the Halifax Commission had proceeded ultra vires and taken into consideration certain elements not fairly in the case submitted."
But the difficult question with me is 'Can I be as useful in it?" "Nonsense, Harvey! Do put away these foolish notions. If you don't, they will be the ruin of you." "I hope not. But if they do, I shall be ruined in a good cause." "I am really afraid, Harvey," Abercrombie said in a serious tone, "that you affect these ultra sentiments, or are self-deceived.
It certainly was the ne plus ultra of an apple. And the name of it was the rambo. Dear me, how good it was! think I'd sooner have one right now than great riches. And all these apples they kept in the apple-hole.
So, telling him that he was temporarily rejected, we advised him to pad out the thesis properly, and return with it next year, at the same time informing his new President that this signified nothing as to his merits, that he was of ultra Ph.D. quality, and one of the strongest men with whom we had ever had to deal.
I conceived the idea that the application of hydraulic press power might serve many similar purposes in dealing with ultra thick plates or bar iron, such as the punching out of holes, and cutting thick bars and plates into definite shapes, as might be required. I suggested the subject to my friend Charles Fox, head of the firm of Fox, Henderson, and Co.
Simultaneous, it hits the Gunner that now's the day an' now's the hour for a non-continuous class in Maxim instruction. So they all give way together, and the general effect was non plus ultra.
Honore, and whence issued laws more bloody than those of Draco, now on the point of being appropriated to a similar destination. The cemetery of St. Sulpice is transformed into a Ranelagh. Over the entrance is written, in large letters, encircled by roses, "BAL DES ZEPHYRS," and, underneath, you read: "Has ultra metas requiescunt Beatam spem expectantes."
Our press hailed the nomination as a "splendid victory of the honest common sense of the entire party over the ultra conservatism of a faction associated in the popular mind with segregated wealth and undue enjoyment of the favors of laws and law-makers." When I saw Burbank he took me graciously by the hand. "I thank you, Harvey," he said, "for your aid in this glorious victory of the people."
That was what McDowell was missing in him, the soul of Conniston himself Conniston, the ne plus ultra of presence and amiable condescension, the man who could look the Inspector or the High Commissioner himself between the eyes, and, serenely indifferent to Service regulations, say, "Fine morning, old top!" Keith was not without his own sense of humor.
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