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Updated: June 11, 2025
They join with those Frenchmen who, since the dark days of June, 1940, have been fighting valiantly for the liberation of their stricken country. We pay tribute to the fighting leaders of our allies, to Winston Churchill, to Joseph Stalin, and to the Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. Yes, there is a very great unanimity between the leaders of the United Nations.
But as he was ridin' him out o'the field, who should see him but the miller. 'Is it stalin' my horse you are, honest man? says the miller. 'No, says the waiver; 'I'm only goin' to axercise him, says he, 'in the cool o' the evenin'; it will be good for his health. 'Thank you kindly, says the miller; 'but lave him where he is, and you'll obleege me.
"'Twould be a rare joke on the Boss," he said, "to be stalin' from him the very thing he's trusted me to guard, and be getting me wages all winter throwed in free. And you're making the pay awful high. Me to be getting five hundred for such a simple little thing as that. You're trating me most royal indade! It's away beyond all I'd be expecting. Sivinteen cints would be a big price for that job.
Call on me when you got well, and I will speak to you at greater length." "Well," observed Connor, when they were gone, "the divil's own hard puzzle the Bishop had me in, about stalin' the milk.
"Upon my conscience," replied Lanigan, "whether he was a good gardener or not is more than I know; but one thing I do know, that he didn't hould his situation long, and mismanaged his orchard disgracefully; and, indeed, like many more of his tribe, he got his walkin' papers in double quick was dismissed without a characther ay, and his wife, like many another gardener's wife, got a habit of stalin' the apples.
In these conferences we were concerned with basic principles principles which involve the security and the welfare and the standard of living or human beings in countries large and small. To use an American and somewhat ungrammatical colloquialism, I may say that I "got along fine" with Marshal Stalin. He is a man who combines a tremendous, relentless determination with a stalwart good humor.
In the beginning his followers never dared show themselves in the uniforms they adopted, because their fellow-countrymen hated everything they stood for. But before the end came they worshipped him. They murdered millions at his command, but they died because of him, too. There was Lenin, and there was Stalin.
I thought sure it was Bridget, that's jist rin away wid a bagful of her misthress's clo'es and a hape o' mine, and it's me that's bin all the way down to Pat Mahoney's in North Street to git him to hunt her up; and the Blessed Mother forgive me, whin I seen you in the dark, stalin' along like, wi' that bag, I thought it was herself it was, sure.
"Why, she says she will come, for all that, if she can; but she bid me take your stick from you, for a rason she has, that she'll tell yourself when she sees you." "Take my stick! Why Nanse, ma colleen baun, what can she want with my stick? Is the darlin' girl goin' to bate any body?" "Bad cess to the know I know, Lamh Laudher, barrin' it be to lay on yourself for stalin' her heart from her.
This emphatic assurance of "rigor mortis" having convinced the old gentleman that his money will be well invested, the deal is about to be closed, when, seeing Oswald, little Jack sprints across the street, down an alley, into the arms of a policeman. "Pfwhat yez roonin' loike yez a stalin' wagabond pfhwor?" sternly asks the officer.
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