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[[red underline]] hand-cranking [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] inste [[/strikethrough]] as a substitute for electrical self starter, but engine was so stiff [[red underline]] that crank broke. [[/red underline]]
Finally a dozen chauffeurs pushed car along toward nearby garage and when doing so managed to start engine by about quarter past midnight.  Arrived home without further trouble, but past one o'clock.

Dec. 11. Morning spent in routine work. [[red underline]] Gothelf [[/red underline]] has been home, for several days on account of small surgical operation.
Evening drove alone to University Club in new car, to take care of [[red underline]] Walker, Little [[strikethrough]] Parker [[/strikethrough]] Parsons, [[/red underline]] whom I had invited for supper. At Club, I find that most
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[[red underline]] newspapers have referred to my address. [[/red underline]] Found also Captain [[red underline]] Crosby [[/red underline]] there and invited him to join our supper, also [[red underline]] Doremus. [[/red underline]] Very interesting  conversation, Crosby relating his experiences in Belgium.
Then later on [[red underline]] Mali, [[/red underline]] consul general of Belgium joined us with a certain Mr. Henry Rulmonde of Brussels, one of the Directors of the Société Générale de Belgique one of the principal banks of Belgium now on a commercial mission here. 
At midnight when I tried to [[red underline]] crank my car, same trouble [[/red underline]] as yesterday but I was prepared for it, so I asked a taxicab driver to tow me for a block, [[red underline]] but his chain snapped just before [[/red underline]] John D. Rockefeller's house where the passage was narrowed on account of street being torn up at that point.  This obstructed