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Intermarriage with other tribes, and settlement into more or less permanent villages, have increased the height of the present generation and helped to remove one of the last human links with Stanley's great day. The Congo River native is perhaps the shrewdest in all Central Africa. He is a born trader, and he can convert the conventional shoe-string into something worth while.
Isidore Belchatosky's face was so wreathed in smiles and foreign matter as to be beyond identification; Nathan Spiderwitz had placed all his trust in a solitary suspender and two unstable buttons; Eva Kidansky had entirely freed herself from restraining hooks and eyes; Isidore Applebaum had discarded shoe-laces; and Abie Ashnewsky had bartered his only necktie for a yard of "shoe-string" licorice.
The Zulu, the immensity of whose pleasure in this venture cannot be even indicated, stripped off his belt with unearthly agility Monsieur Auguste gave his, which we tongue-holed to The Zulu's somebody else contributed a necktie another a shoe-string The Young Pole his scarf, of which he was impossibly proud etc.
Leslie's father, a few seals tied together by a shoe-string, a shagreen toothpick case, a tortoise shell magnifying-glass to read with, his eldest son's first copybooks, his second son's ditto, his daughter's ditto, and a lock of his wife's hair arranged in a true lover's knot, framed and glazed.
It was divided into many tight braids, each of which was wrapped with a bit of shoe-string. From under the last one she took a small envelope and handed it to Ruth. "Dat's it," she said. "I was so skeered I'd lose it I didn't trust it no place 'cept in my head." Ruth unfolded the note and read: "DEAR RACHEL: I mean biznis if you mean biznis send me fore dollars to git a devorce. "George."
We were making more, but our copier ran out of toner." Kurt pondered this for a moment. "What kind of organization is this?" "The shoe-string kind." "Well, if you can't get your hands on some toner, how do you expect to take over the frigging world?!" Denny gave Kurt a dark look. "Sorry..." Kurt muttered. "As it happens, we're not trying to take over the 'frigging' world.
"A very big bundle," he said, and taking hold of her shoulders he turned her around on her husband. So Polly and Phronsie crept in unnoticed after all. "I wish Ben was here," said little Davie, capering around the Whitney group, "an' Jappy, I do!" "Where are they!" asked Polly. "Don't know," said Joel, tugging at his shoe-string. "See aren't these prime!"
I would prefer photoplays filled with such visions and oracles to the state papers written by "practical men." As it is, we are ruled indirectly by photoplays owned and controlled by men who should be in the shoe-string and hook-and-eye trade. Apparently their digestions are good, they are in excellent health, and they keep out of jail.
And Priscilla walked down the corridor swinging her note-book by its shoe-string, and opening envelops as she went. She was presently joined by Georgie Merriles, likewise swinging a note-book by a shoe-string. "Hello, Pris; going to English? Want me to help carry your mail?" "Thank you," said Priscilla; "you may keep the most of it.
Assuming an indifference as great as his own, Katharine had leaned forward to inspect her second shoe-string, and afterward attempting to regain her former uprightness, felt, instead, that she was slipping downward. She landed angrily upon her feet, and, facing about, she upbraided him as a "rude, unmannerly boy." However, the mischief was done, her secret was out.
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