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Though they knew he had betrayed them, Lansing's position was too strong to be assailed. "You might have mentioned that you contemplated retiring from the board," one remarked. "Then we would have known what to expect." "A little reflection will show the futility of your suggestion. How could I contemplate being run over by a motor-car?"
"We meant to keep it from you till to-morrow. It might be a little easier not to know it till it was over than now, when it is going on, and you not able to lift a finger to stop it." "Oh, John," cried Mrs. Pinney once more; "remember, she does n't know!" and, sobbing hysterically, she fled from the room, unable to endure the sight of Lansing's face.
Germany, buffer state on the Rhine; and Russian route to the East; Lansing's memorandum on territorial settlements; military impotence. See also Central Powers; French alliance; Mandates. Ginn Peace Foundation. Great Britain, and clause on self-determination; Egypt. See also French alliance; Great Powers; Lloyd George. Great Powers, and mandates.
One of the visitors glanced meaningly at his companion. There was truth in what Lansing said. The angry shareholders would not discriminate carefully; they would blame the present directors, who would have to face a serious loss while Lansing had made a profit. It was a galling situation; and what made it worse was that Lansing's expression hinted that he found it somewhat humorous.
He who believes in luck should study the career of Robert Lansing. Mr. Lansing probably thinks that the goddess of chance played him a scurvy trick, after having admitted him to the Olympian heights, to break him as suddenly as she made him. Robert Lansing's real misfortune was not knowing how to play his luck. It is curious the fear men have of death.
Lansing's part while in Paris, and that the situation was aggravated by Mr. Lansing's notes to Mexico during the President's illness. When I received from the President's stenographer the letter to Mr.
I can readily see that you would not dare come to me with this matter unless you had facts. I appreciate your good-will toward me and Lans, but I am just wondering if this this relationship of Sandford Morley's with a with the young woman, might not be viewed as leniently as Lansing's if all were known? He might call it by a new-fangled name, you know." "Why, Mr. Markham!
"God will help me to do the best for her," said the Bishop quietly. "I am the Bishop of Alden. I can do something." With the definiteness of a man who has heard a final word, Tom Lansing's eyes turned to his daughter. Obediently she came again and knelt at his side, holding his head.
Affirmative guaranty of territory and independence, plan; Wilson adopts, in Fourteen Points; Lansing's opposition; constitutional and political arguments against; Lansing's "self-denying covenant" as substitute; in Wilson's original draft and in Treaty; as continuing balance of power; Wilson adheres to; not in Cecil plan; in Lansing's resolution of principles; other substitute; as reason for rejection of Treaty by Senate; retained in reported Covenant; and dominance of Great Powers.
And as he sat there in the summer moonlight, with her head on his knee, he tried to recapitulate the successive steps that had landed them on Streffy's lake-front. On Lansing's side, no doubt, it dated back to his leaving Harvard with the large resolve not to miss anything.
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