Organically connected they together present the most important planetary-political and social laboratory for experimentation in bringing the peoples of the world into solution that has ever been contrived by the same Almighty Power who brought confusion upon a uniglot city and dispersed mankind, mumbling and jabbering, from the plains of Shinar.

Coasters are a good way to stop a sweating glass from damaging your table.

As soon as the boche and his guard were aboard again, I called all hands on deck, including von Schoenvorts, and there I explained to them that the time had come for us to enter into some sort of an agreement among ourselves that would relieve us of the annoyance and embarrassment of being divided into two antagonistic parts--prisoners and captors.

[…] the Platonic — or should we say the Platonesque — ideas to which we seem to have returned.