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On the Saturday night before the election, Thatcher and Bassett had appeared together on the platform at a great meeting at the capital one of those final flourishes by which county chairmen are prone to hearten their legions against the morrow's battle.
"I hope so. Good night." I left that infernal abode, and went home to bed. The End of the Story Stranger Than the Beginning At eight o'clock the next morning Jarbe told me that the Charpillon wanted to see me, and that she had sent away her chairmen. "Tell her that I can't see her." But I had hardly spoken when she came in, and Jarbe went out.
He came close up to her, scarcely according her the civility of greeting. Never had she seen his countenance more gloomy. "You can tell me truer than those drunken devils below stairs," he said. "Where is your sister?" "At Lady Sarah Tewkesbury's." "So her major-domo swears; but her chairmen, whom I found asleep in the hall, say they set her down at the palace." "At Whitehall?"
Edgar M. Cahn as State chairman, had enrolled 300 members. It held open air rallies, organized by legislative districts, which are known as "parishes," and in the seventeen wards of Orleans parish congressional chairmen were appointed by the beginning of 1914.
Without committees, executives, laws, votes, or chairmen, they could not undertake any work which depended on organized effort, and, except as they managed from time to time to gain a prominent position in some labor or radical organization built up by others, they had no influence over any large body of people.
Weller; who, after a most vigorous resistance, was overpowered by numbers and taken prisoner. The procession then reformed; the chairmen resumed their stations; and the march was re-commenced. Mr. Pickwick's indignation during the whole of this proceeding was beyond all bounds.
Mansfield, Literature. For convenience of work the State was divided into twelve campaign districts, whose chairmen were, 1st, Miss Hay, New York City; 2nd, Mrs. Brown, Bellport, Long Island; 3rd, Miss Leila Stott, Albany; 4th, Mrs. Frank Paddock, Malone; 5th, Mrs. L. O. McDaniel, succeeded by Miss Mills, Syracuse; 6th, Mrs. Helen B. Owens, Ithaca; 7th, Mrs. Alice C. Clement, Rochester; 8th, Mrs.
With the amount of accumulated experience that I had behind me I was naturally interested during my lecture in England in the chairmen who were to introduce me. I cannot help but feel that I have acquired a fine taste in chair men. I know them just as other experts know old furniture and Pekinese dogs. The witty chairman, the prosy chairman, the solemn chairman, I know them all.
The last recital I gave him of what he said for half an hour before was, 'What, the devil! where is the washball? call the chairmen! d n them, I warrant they are at the alehouse already! zounds! and confound them! When he came to the glass he takes up my note 'Ha! this fellow is worse than me: what, does he swear with pen and ink? But, reading on, he found them to be his own words.
She loved to write letters, in her situation, but they contrived to give her a distaste to it; persuading her, by the aid of the doctor, that it was too fatiguing; and, under pretence that I did not understand how to wait on her, they employed two great lubberly chairmen for that purpose; in a word, they managed the affair so well, that for eight days before she made her will, I had not been permitted to enter the chamber.
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