Europe After 8:15

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George Jean Nathan. Europe After 8:15

Europe After 8:15

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PREFACE IN THE SOCRATIC MANNER

VIENNA

VIENNA

MUNICH

MUNICH

BERLIN

BERLIN

LONDON

LONDON

PARIS

PARIS

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Willard Huntington Wright, H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan

Published by Good Press, 2019

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"Naturally. That's the tip fixed by custom. You may almost say it's the unwritten law. If you gave the conductor more, he would hand you change. Well, how I reason it out is this way: If five pfennigs is enough for a car conductor, who may carry you three miles, why shouldn't it be enough for the elevator boy, who may carry you only three stories?"

"It seems fair, certainly."

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