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Inquired Miss Alma Van Curan, Democratic chairman of the election board: "What is your occupation?"

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Inquired Admiral Hughes: "Does Mayor Walker go anywhere without his photographers ?" Answered Mayor Walker: "Well, the boys want a picture."

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U. S. Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania: Inquired if the federal judges should not be spared "the shock of industrial warfare," the burden of legislative and executive problems.

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Inquired Bavasi: "How can you pitch when you can't get the side out?"

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Inquired Don Ferdinand, encountering his wife's favorite attendant at the entrance of Marie's private suit of rooms; and though his cheek was somewhat pale, his voice was firm as usual.

From The Vale of Cedars by Aguilar, Grace