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...been followed by a host of complications, mostly about Russia's half interest in the Chinese Eastern Railway. Last week China's statesman Mo Teh-hui was busy tying up loose ends of the Peace in Moscow. Statesman Mo called at the Soviet Foreign Office, got down to exceedingly brass tacks with Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov who hates and professes to scorn Statesman Stimson (TIME...
...line of cherished poodles all called Tobey, the Wendel dog got many a press notice after his mistress's death. What was to become of him? Would he be supported in the style to which he had been accustomed? (It had been said that he had his own brass bed, his own special table, that huge sums had been refused for the Wendel property so as to insure Tobey a place to run in.) Was it true that he was to be shot, as were the Wendel horses (said legend) when the old family coachman died...
With a cavalry escort, with the guard of honor of a viceroy, Judge Duff whirled up Parliament Hill. For him the brass band of the footguards played "God Save the King." In legal fiction the nice, oldish gentleman was the King. It was the most exciting day of his life...
...house that had (until lately) no telephone, no electricity. Twenty-five years ago John Gottlieb Wendel III, in refusing as always to sell the Wendel corner, explained it was because the contemporary Tobey had to have a place to run in. The present Tobey has his own brass bed, his own specially constructed table alongside Miss Wendel's. When this Tobey dies he will be buried with his predecessors in the Wendel dog-graveyard at Irvington-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. (the Wendel summer-home...
...City Hall gathered a noisy, sweaty crowd of jobholders, petty politicians and hangers-on?the Thompson Gang. Waiters brought them heaping trays of food & drink. Free cigars were chewed and waved. Backs were violently slapped, greetings bellowed. The sour grey air vibrated with the full blare of a brass band. In the centre of the boisterous human pack stood beefy, bloodshot Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, He was in his shirtsleeves. His flushed face was damp. His eyes bulged with excitement. His voice was hoarse from gleeful roaring...