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"You must not suppose, sir," pursued his dragoman, "that there is not plenty of the undraped, so long as it is vulgar, as you saw just now upon the stage, for that is good business; the line is only drawn at the danger-point of art, which is always very bad business in this country. Yet even in real life the undraped has to be grotesque to be admitted; the one fatal quality is natural beauty.
There she discovered the child, a fat youngster of a year or so, purple in the face, with a button wedged in its throat. Taking it by the heels she shook the child vigorously, upside-down; and, lo and behold! this had the opposite effect to what she intended. When they straightened the child out again the button was found to have passed the danger-point and gone down.
That all these governments of confusion will drift towards war, with a spacious impulse and a final vehemence quite out of comparison greater than the warlike impulses of former times, is a remarkable but by no means inexplicable thing. A tone of public expression, jealous and patriotic to the danger-point, is an unavoidable condition under which democratic governments exist.
We have seen how constantly and successfully Austria had supported the general Prussian thesis in Europe, and, in particular, the predominance of the German Powers over the Slav. We have seen how, in pursuit of this policy, the sharpest friction was always suffered at the danger-point of Servia.
JOHN F. LACEY Ex-Member of Congress; Author of the "Lacey Bird Law" Dr. Palmer is a man of incalculable value to the cause of protection. No call for advice is too small to receive his immediate attention, no fight is too hot and no danger-point too remote to keep him from the fray.
"I have been told that you have been keeping a mistress," he said, avoiding the young man's eye. "That," answered Max, "would, I suppose, be the generally received phrase for it." "Who is she?" queried the King, pushing hazardously on, now that the danger-point had been reached. "Do you wish to meet her?" Parental dignity was offended. "That is a suggestion you ought not to make."
As soon as the pressure of the affaire rises to danger-point i.e., when the youth begins to pay markedly more attention to one Twin than the other he is asked, say, to lunch. After lunch the Twins, leaving their victim to smoke a cigar, retire swiftly to their room, where they exchange costumes, and descend again to the drawing-room.
Lambert, the case is quite as desperate as that, to my thinking, and as I am beginning to centre my life in her also, you will see that I am quite as deeply concerned as any one. She has reached a danger-point. She must not go on in this way another month." Again those lines of serene obstinacy came back into her face, and the gentle bigot looked from her eyes. "You are all wrong.
Such an accident has been made impossible by making the opening in the base of the skull so much larger than the brain stem that in extreme movements there can be no scissors-like action; the muscles which move the head on the atlas arrest all movements long before the danger-point is reached; even if the muscles are caught off their guard, as they sometimes are, certain strong ligaments fastenings of tough fibres are so set as automatically to jam the joint before the edge of the foramen can come in contact with the brain stem.
When we hear it, Joe and I will bring Carpenter down to the street, and if the Brigade is there, it's up to you to persuade them you're the bigger mob!" Then Old Joe and I ran down to my car, and drove at full speed to the Socialist headquarters; and on the way we worked out our own plan of campaign. The real danger-point was Hamby, the secret agent, and we must manage to put him out of the way.
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