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Logically Prussian Braun thought of Herr Wilhelm Karl Severing who, recently Minister of Interior for all Germany, handled his Schupo (national police) with such hard-boiled dash that they nicknamed him "The Dragon Slayer." Asked if he would consent to become Minister of Interior of the State of Prussia, Herr Severing accepted instantly, believing that it is in Prussia, in Berlin, the Capital, that Schupo must break Fascist Adolf Hitler's "brownshirt" movement if they...
...thorax. Smallest insects are 1/100 in. long, scarcely discernible to the human eye. There is a chunky beetle (Macrodontia cervicovnis) 6 in. long, and some stick-insects reach 13-in. in length. Insect with the greatest wingspread is the moth Erebus agrippina, spread 11 in. But a fossil dragon fly had a 2-ft. spread...
...annoyed at not being able to be present at the weekly spectacles. "However," she added, "it was little Albie Booth at Yale that really made me football conscious. There is something romantic about his marvelous ability. It is a sort of Saint George and the Dragon, Machiavelli, Ubermench combination, and I should love to watch him play. To see him run down the field and Oh but I mustn't forget that you are Harvard men." She did not mention Yale's other distinguished alumnus, Rudy Valee...
...well with Virginians. Tall, sturdy, slow-but-sure North Chinamen despise and are despised by South Chinamen, small, nimble, slick. Last week China resumed on a grand scale her civil war between North and South. It has been dragging on, in one form or another, ever since the Dragon Throne was upset by the revolution of 1911. Observers noted that this time the battle is between forces headed by the four best men of North, and South...
...Manhattan Ong You, 60, leader of the Hip Sing Tong, was hauled into court, charged with issuing tickets for a policy game. The court interpreter was asked to read one of these. Read he: "The dragon will walk the eternal paths of glory and the lion shall be exercised. Would that our ancestors bring on us only fair skies with shining suns." Ong You, purveyor of Chinese New Year's cards, was discharged...