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Germans were greeting His Royal Highness with broken-English shouts of "Hel-low Teddy," the Duke replying by giving the Nazi salute in the famed languid, halfway fashion of Adolf Hitler. Bug-eyed German moppets could be heard shouting to each other all week "Da geht der Konig von England." ("There goes the King of England...
...Their Eyes Were Watching God, an upstanding coffee-colored quadroon outlasts all three of her men-the last only because she was quicker on the trigger than he was-goes back to her village to rest in peace and to make her friends' eyes bug out at the tales of what she and life have done together...
During the Chalk Age (60 to 150 million years ago) the air must have swarmed with all kinds of insects-but for some mysterious reason fossil evidence of Chalk Age bugs is rare almost to the point of nonexistence. Smithsonian Institution scientists were therefore delighted to receive last week two rare wing-prints lately found in 100,000,000-year-old Colorado sandstone, one of a giant leaf hopper, the other of something like a modern squash bug...
Soviet newspaper readers last week were bug-eyed at a trial in Manchukuo which seemed to them as deliberate a miscarriage of justice as the Moscow Old Bolsheviks Trials must have seemed to Manchukuoan Emperor Kang Te, Japan's bland puppet. To Red Russians there is nowhere a more detestable body of men than the "White Guards" in Manchukuo, a group of ex-Tsarist soldiers, aristocrats and riff-raff who live just outside the Soviet Union border, expecting momentarily and scheming year after year for "the collapse of Bolshevism...
...Buffalo district as famed for polo as Long Island. He was captain of the squash racquets team sent to Britain in 1935. His active interest in art is recent. To date his private collection consists of one Utrillo bought a few months ago, and the collector's bug...