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...cynical can see good advice to future feminine aspirants to office in the results of the trial. It will not need many more years of experience before they can take their place as accomplished politicians along with their brothers and husbands, but meantime they had best either walk a bit more softly or let their male relatives manage the trouble some details...
...well worn button, a lock of hair, a bit of bedraggled gold braid, and a wedding ring-such are four relics beyond price which were presented to the Japanese Empire, last week at Tokyo, by the U. S. Ambassador, that puissant, cultured and droopy -mustached Manhattan lawyer Charles MacVeigh...
...toothless from scurvy, the cynical oldsters were right that escape was not so certain. Six weary years dragged themselves out: lumberjacking or road-building under armed guards, restless hours in prison, philosophising, swearing, gambling for "mômes," the girlish boys who were possessed by carnal strongmen. With luck bits of wood could be stolen and carved into salable boxes, or penny errands might be run for the slave-drivers, and bit by tarnished bit the price of attempt at freedom could be bought. Five hundred francs would bribe a bushman to paddle one convict across to the jungle...
...their hands and the factory gates roll shut. Rowboats on the river, tennis, golf, a kiss in the dusk on a park bench. . . . Headlights and signboards glitter. At the cinema the feet of Charles Chaplin are shown. Bare arms and bare legs at a revue move like machinery. A bit of Beethoven. A bar and an arm tightening about a waist. A swirl of skyrockets. A sudden...
...Marques, Don Estanislao de Urquijo, is president of the Compania Telefonica and has inherited a close financial connection with the Bourbon dynasty (his father having given many a shrewd bit of advice to Alfonso XIII. in the King's early days. The present Marques de Urquijo is rated Spain's greatest banker (Banco Urquijo of Madrid...