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...owner and mistress of a Plympton Street "pig-sty" near Lowell House she is reputed to have recently held out for $42,000 when the University bid for her property. Said she, glancing toward Mr. Coolidge's domain, "My Jim brought me here when this place was all a dump, and now that I have such good neighbors, by God, I mean to stay...
...China could reflect that, for every dollar they have accepted from Japanese, Russians and other "foreign devils," they have seldom returned 3 cents worth of satisfaction. In passing, the Nanking Government blandly revealed last week that on Oct. 20 a stupendous explosion of Generalissimo Chiang's munition dump in Kansu Province killed over 2,000 Chinese. Hundreds of families were buried amid the debris of their collapsed homes and wiped out by the explosion was the military hospital in which wounded might have been treated. Gravely wounded lay German Catholic Missionary Bishop Buddenbrock. The explosion, the Government said...
...than his comrades. When Holt falls in love with an unknown, charming lady (Mona Barrie) at a fiesta, she turns out to be the wife of his commanding officer (Antonio Moreno). Holt saves Moreno from perishing in the jungle after a crash, steals an enemy plane, bombs an ammunition dump, captures the Paraguayan ace, El Zorro, "the fox who flies like an eagle...
...exception of the Piggly Wiggly corner in 1923, the Stutz coup was the last big corner ever executed on the New York Stock Exchange. In a pious moment a few years later the Governors took steps to prevent them by rules & regulations. Another result of that squeeze was to dump considerable amounts of Stutz stock in the hands of the good friends of Allan Ryan's father-principally Charles Michael Schwab. Except for one short interlude, Bethlehem Steel's aging chairman has had Stutz ever since...
...nick to a porphyry castle, where a queen named She (Helen Gahagan) mistakes Leo Vincey for his ancestor, explains that she has been in love with him for 500 years. The hospitality at the castle is good; the Queen's character, bad. When she tries to dump Tanya into a cauldron, Leo Vincey rescues her, runs away. He and his associates find themselves trapped in the cave of the mystic flame. The Queen jumps into the flame to show Leo that it will do him no harm. Instead of rejuvenating her, it turns her into an old lady. Muttering...