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There is a plot about a trio of vaudeville entertainers who try to crash society at Palm Beach. True love meets a millionaire and matters are amicably concluded. Miss Smith again demonstrates that she can dance, sing and be funny a little better than almost any other comedienne. Mr. Tombes and Mr. Watson, aided by good material, are pretty ridiculous...
...Labor Party of England," he declared, "is a strong advocate of peace. I wish that some central spot could be found in the ocean where all the battleships and war airplanes could be brought together in a gigantic crash...
...crash myself but several of the pilots of No. 18 Squadron, on the same aerodrome, saw Richthofen come down and the report was that a Lieutenant Brown had brought him down, though at the same time machine gunners on the ground claimed that they had put his machine out of action. . . . "One thing is certain; his machine crashed with considerable violence on the ground, and it is sure that von Richthofen was dead before he crashed...
Pompey fell with a great crash and was executed by his treacherous freedman. Napoleon ate his heart out in solitude at St. Helenn. Charles I went to his death after a revolution. William II's career stopped as dramatically as any of these; why has he not suffered a similar fate? It may be that the fates are too busy to pursue a man his size. The lot of an arrogant country gentleman seems to fit him better than that of the most powerful monarch of his time...
...Maryland" was his last spurt, the gesture of a man who had been beaten by age rather than by any such putty-faced whippersnapper as his opponent. His hands slipped from the keyboard; stiffly he rose to hear Pianist Burt, winner of the championship and a purse of $2000, crash into his finale, "America...