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...subjects to denounce him as a buffoon, but they do not become really incensed until the christening of the heir to the throne, a ceremony for which the Prime Minister tries to supply the proper air of spontaneous festivity by hiring all the professional mourners in the city to cheer as the King goes by. At this point, the picture suddenly descends to sorry melodrama. The jolly little king is murdered by his soldiers and Miss Negri, called upon to admit that her son is illegitimate, barely escapes with her life...
...whereas investors and others concerned with Japan's fundamental credit may have viewed war events with alarm, those who sell goods to Japan for cash had reason to cheer. Shipments of cotton from the U. S. to Japan in the July-December period were double what they were in the same 1930 period-1,069,000 bales v. 490,000. January sales were probably about 500,000 bales against 315,000 in December. Great arguments were waged last week as to whether these purchases were for munition-making or to safeguard spinners against a further yen-drop...
This sudden calamity he met with supreme courage and cheer. To this day no one has ever heard him admit that he could not walk. He continued his law practice, developed a wide personal correspondence among eminent Democrats throughout the land...
...advantage of being supported by such patriotic and patrician men of science as Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Thomas Sloggett, who was director general of medical services to the British Army in the War, and the late George James Playfair, Baron Playfair, an outstanding medical scientist who used to cheer patients with an account of his part in the action at Shipka Pass in the Turkish War of 1877. While the exact process by which Bovril is distilled from meat is secret, Bovril, Ltd. has never attempted to conceal the fact that it takes 20 to 30 pounds of good lean...
...long vista of warrantable gloom, this is indeed a cause of cheer. For not only have 92 per cent of the 24,345 students voting declared, in general terms, for reduction of armament; no fewer than 63 per cent have urged independent disarmament by the United States without waiting for other countries...