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...Star-Spangled Banner." In taking leave of Ambassador Herrick in the name of all Frenchmen, Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré saluted, "that fine and good man . . . who leaves in our memory an image which nothing can destroy!" Movingly the grizzled "Lion of Lorraine" described again how Mr. Herrick came to him in 1914, when the Germans were all but at the gates of Paris...
...said the Chief and he called a soldier, ordering him to take the bomb to the headquarters of General Augustin de la Vega, the rebel commander, and destroy it. The soldier, misunderstanding, left the bomb ticking quietly on General de la Vega's desk...
...goal. The City of New York asks ships at sea to watch for him. The Empress of Scotland answers that she has sighted him. The fog cries out: "I am the fog, turn about." Lindbergh retorts: "That will I not." The snow storm speaks, says it has tried to destroy him, to bury him in the waters of the Atlantic. A typical passage...
...Ford turned incongruously collector of antiques, patron of country dancing, defender of an earlier civilization. Mr. Merz considers it an irony that a civilization precocious in mechanics should be puerile in philosophy. His epitome of the later-day Ford: "The old scene vanished. And a man who had helped destroy it by contributing ten million cars to a mighty stream of motors went about the country with a basket picking up the pieces...
...uncompleted British airship R-100 was recently pulled out of her hangar at Howden, Yorkshire, was revealed last week. Rats, less cunning than those which infest but do not destroy surface ships, had invaded the hangar and threatened to eat the R-100's fabric. While the airship was safely out of doors, poison killed scores and scores of the rats...