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Aldus himself was the first president of the organization, and the members included readers and correctors of the Aldine Press, priests and doctors, the cultured nobility of Venice, Padua, Rome, Bologna, and Lucca, Greek scholars from Candia, and even the great Erasmus from Rotterdam.

Our committee have received through it a report that a French freighter out of Le Havre for Rotterdam has disappeared at sea.

Seine estuary and had set course north for Rotterdam sixteen miles off the Le Havre light when Morel on the bridge had seen the navigation lights of a motor yacht appearing out of the mist.

I thought I had to become Anatole Bloomberg, an importerexporter from Rotterdam with a hook nose and flat feet, or an Antwerp diamond merchant wearing a skullcap, or a hunchbacked Talmudic scholar in a woolly black coat and shoes without shoelaces.

Jake had driven the car out of Goes and on to the main road to Rotterdam and then pulled into a lay by and told Annis to fake the wheel, and when she protested he contrived to make her feel that his leg was being troublesome.

I reached Anvers in two days, and finding a yacht ready to start I got on board and arrived at Rotterdam the next day.

I told her to go on to Rotterdam the next day and wait for me there with her son, as I had no wish to give scandal at the Hague.

On the 3rd of August all was ready, and the prince himself superintended the breaking down of the dykes in sixteen places, while at the same time the sluices at Schiedam and Rotterdam were opened and the water began to pour over the land.

The demand is for one hundred million guilders from the government, twenty million from Mr David Joseph Karlmann Meijer, the Rotterdam industrialist.

It was, in fact, why I was on my way to Rotterdam, but this particular episode was the reason I turned around in midflight on the way there.

Therese told me that the wine did not cost her anything, as the son of the Rotterdam burgomaster furnished her with it, and that he would sup with us the next day if I would allow him to be present.

I did not return to the hotel till after the play, and I then heard that the Frenchman, after having the surgeon with him for an hour, had set out for Rotterdam with his friend.

The day after tomorrow she will go to the Hague, then to Rotterdam, then back here again.

All the bombs dropped on all the cities in World War II amounted to some two million tons, two megatons, of TNT - Coventry and Rotterdam, Dresden and Tokyo, all the death that rained from the skies between 1939 and 1945: a hundred thousand blockbusters, two megatons.

But, chancing to meet with an old acquaintance, whom I did not at all desire to see, I found it convenient to withdraw softly to Rotterdam.