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...remain in a corner of the Forbidden City until 1924, when Christian General Feng kicked him out and into the arms of Japan. But ever since the fall of the empire the more portable part of his inherited treasure has been dribbling away, a Ming vase here, a jade bowl there. Even so, enough remains to dazzle the eyes and tire the feet of the most ardent tourist...
...Hightstown, N. J., James Fischer, 79, living with his niece, Mrs. Thomas H. Everett, entered the dining room one morning to find there was no room for him at the breakfast table. Grumbling bitterly, he took his bowl of cereal into the kitchen, soon returned with a pistol, shot his niece's son-in-law, Kelton Pearce...
...Dean Franklin felt that something should be done about it. One group of Boston alumnae was organized to provide free luncheon books to a small number of girls. Another paid $25 weekly for free extras in the cafeterias. And anyone who wished to could help further to endow a bowl of oiled beets or red apples, simply by buying a $5 vitamin ticket...
...Frau Richard Strauss to write a ballet scenario. Herr Richard lathered it with music prodigiously orchestrated, conducted it at the Vienna Staatsoper to celebrate his 60th birthday. In the ballet, pralines, marzipans and gingerbread men dance in a pastry-shop kitchen. Whipped-cream ballerinas waltz out of a giant bowl. An over-stuffed little boy has a nightmare which serves to bring chocolate creams and knall-bonbons on the stage, more pralines, more schlagobers...
With Hauptmann Goring at the gavel, the Deputies proceeded to elect their three Vice-Speakers, were told that Socialist Paul Loebe and People's Partyman Otto Hugo had tied for the third Vice-Speakership. To break this tie the two men drew lots from a bowl. Just at that moment the official tellers announced that a recount showed there had been no tie, awarded the third Vice-Speakership to astonished Dr. Loebe who had lost the draw...