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It is a depressing sidelight on human nature that the achievement of eminence brings with it the malice and spite of petty minds and no one of prominence can avoid becoming the target of stupid and unscrupulous attack. It would be pointless now to go into those carping and unjust accusations directed at me by irresponsible newspaper columnists.
It should satisfy any unprejudiced reader of the printed History as we now have it, and to that extent emphasize the authenticity. An interesting sidelight on Swift's History is thrown by Chesterfield in a letter he wrote to Dr. Chenevix, Bishop of Waterford, on May 23rd, 1758.
Looking back in the new cold sidelight, her life came out clearly with all the color gone from it and the remorseless details distinct. And in this survey Nature dwindled to a minor Deity, a goddess with moods as many and whims as wild as a woman's.
Schuyler needs your services she may want you there with her." "Oh, in that case " began Aunt Lucy, but Winnie was off again on one of her enthusiastic descriptions of the grand ways of the Schuyler household, and Aunt Lucy was quite willing to listen. As for me, I wanted the benefit of every possible sidelight on the whole business, and I, too, took in all Winnie's detailed narrations.
"And if you don't?" asked Starmidge, deeply interested by this sidelight on financial dealings. "What then?" "Then he relies on his damn paper and my signature to it, and turns me out!" replied the aggrieved one. "Thievery! that's what I call it. That's his blooming ultimatum came in last night to tell me. I hope you'll catch him and hang him!" The two detectives had long since realized that Mr.
Should the value of these securities fall below this sum they must be replenished until there is a margin of twenty per cent in excess of the principal of the loan. These securities throw an interesting sidelight upon the resource of the French Republic and its ability to borrow desirable collateral from patriotic citizens.
If you look at the maps which the packing houses put out, and see where the cattle are drawn from; and then if you consider that the cattle, when converted into food, are hauled again by the same railways right back to the place where they came from, you will get some sidelight on the transportation problem and the price of meat. Take also grain.
When you generally gouge, kick and sandbag a man into bein' real good, why we say you come the Jack Orde on him." "I see," said Bob, vastly amused at this sidelight on the family reputation. "What would you do here?" "I don't know," replied the riverman, "but I wouldn't lay around and wait." "Why don't some of you fellows go out there and storm the fort, if you feel that way?" asked Bob.
Here, then, was their chance to obtain official status, and the Governor, a shrewd man, seized it. A slight passage-at-arms between the I.G. and a certain Chinese official enlivened the proceedings, and threw an amusing sidelight on Oriental methods.
Tony nodded. "That's just what she is. She used to play a lot at Monte before the war. Now she can't afford to go there. So she lives here and plays every night on the proceeds of any odd jewellery she can still sell." Ann regarded her commiseratingly. The woman seemed to her a pathetically tragic figure a sidelight on the many tragedies hidden among that cosmopolitan crowd on the terrace.
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