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He met another who had helped to organize a balloon club, and two twenty-four-hour trips in the clouds. There were others who went in for settlement work and Russian revolutionists there were even some who called themselves Socialists!
On this crowded twenty-four-hour cross-section of contemporary American life the curtain goes up at nine-thirty o'clock of a January forenoon. Locality, the city of Marion the capital of a state. Time, that politically throbbing, project-crowded, anxious, and expectant season of plot and counterplot the birth of a legislative session. Disclosed, the office of St.
He saw that she meant to-morrow afternoon at three. "Can't I arrange with you for a twenty-four-hour option?" he begged, becoming anxious. "I shall not bind myself in any way," she declared. "To-morrow afternoon at three." "That's a beautiful piece of property," commented Johnny as they drove by. "By George, the apartment-house will shut those people off from the river!"
"Or Lord Rockstone may perhaps be just in the midst of one of his usual twenty-four-hour interviews with an American newspaper representative," he continued his chaffing.
Compared with other occupations, hers fulfills none of the conditions that the self-respecting wage-earner demands. The twenty-four-hour day, the seven-day week, no legal claim for remuneration, these are her common working conditions. Other claims which a husband can and usually does make upon her I leave unnoticed; also the unquestioned claim of her children upon her time and strength.
But except that there were not infrequent and sometimes twenty-four-hour sieges when he was denied the sight of his wife, he had learned, with a male's acquiescence to the frailties of the other sex, to submit, and, with no great understanding of pain, to condone.
When he turned his head the cords leaped out on his neck. His mouth had that look, at once savage and nervous, which goes always with the hunted man. And it was not until he was himself convinced that Dozier could take care of himself that he wrapped himself in his blankets and fell into a twenty-four-hour sleep.
Lost their leaders and three of their best men, lost their rendezvous at Moreno's, lost horses and mules, for what our men didn't get the Apaches did, and won absolutely nothing except the twenty-four-hour possession of a safe they hadn't time to open.
At five our work begins not an eight-hour day. We have twenty-four-hour days here sometimes. This one may be shorter. You never can tell. It may be a one-hour day or less." Suddenly he came towards her with hands outstretched. "Dear wife Jasmine " he exclaimed.
The great twenty-four-hour clock at the end of the Board Room, ticking on and on while the Secretary read, wore an unfamiliar face. . . . Yes, time had gone wrong, somehow: and the events of the passage home to Falmouth, of the journey up to the doors of the Admiralty, though they ran on a chain, had no intervals to be measured by a clock, but followed one another like pictures on a wall.
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