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...intervening in the conflict on the side of the Allies. There was not room for Constantine and his Premier, so Venizelos was dismissed. For two years, cabinet succeeded cabinet with bewildering rapidity until Constantine was himself dismissed. His son Alexandros succeeded to the throne, but later a monkey bit him and he died...
...Story. At 24, Lou Witt was without a taproot. Having drifted from New Orleans to Texas to Paris to Biarritz, Vienna, Palermo, Rome, London, she was as native to one bit of geography as another. Nor could people, any person, hold her. She saw through them, always had her own way. Her best lover, impetuous, paint-daubing Rico, she had subjugated. Now he was merely the futile, shallow Sir Henry Carrington, would-be London society painter, her husband. Their relation had paled to nervous platonism, Lou doubting there was a man who could think quickly and far enough, love largely...
Outside St. Peter's in Rome there were strange scenes, last week. In fiendish war-paint, a band of Iroquois Indians fell upon canoeing Jesuit priests, slashed them with knives, bit out their fingernails, grilled their soles on glowing tomahawks - all on large banners which decorated the main entrance to the church...
...extra quivers of arrows. One carried also a small gun, by way of "mental comfort." The hidden leopard surprised one of White's companions, fell upon him and clawed him. The gun carrier came to the rescue and fired pointblank. More infuriated, the beast turned upon the firer, bit him furiously. White seized the fallen gun and fired the second shot, only to draw the leopard's attack on himself with such force that he was knocked down, leopard's teeth sunk in his shoulder. The two bearers were helpless from their wounds, the rest...
...bit a baby, killed a cock...