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...London his worthy parents made plans for meeting him at the Victoria Station. In Buenos Aires his ship, the Repulse, rose and fell at her pier, waiting. Snow fell softly on the Andes. Then skies cleared; much of the snow melted. The Prince's train chugged up the Andes again, with every prospect of coasting down into Argentina on schedule...
French officers, surveying the heights which they had so dearly won, discovered the chief immediate spoils to be a vast store of squawking chickens abandoned by the Riffians. Famished after their uphill fight, they fell to and swallowed many a pinfeather in their eagerness...
...years ago, Rene Viviani, war Premier of France, fell, a huddled heap, over the grave of Isabelle Vouhelier-Lepelletier, his wife, His great voice which on a thousand platforms had been a "kaleidescope of sound" choked with broken sobs...
With the General near, the Reichswehr goose-stepped, saluted, and were proudly inspected amid a furor of monarchist enthusiasm. Alas, as night fell and the General departed, the peasants of the region (Polish sympathizers) would offer the resplendent Reichswehr only pigpens as billets, withstood weary soldiers with pitchforks. Enraged, the authorities arrested hundreds of peasants and temporarily confiscated their property for military purposes...
...rounds passed. Berlenbach outboxed, registered no change of demeanor. But Slattery? A tiny spray of blood worked at his lips. The speed was faded that had touched him with beauty like a fire. Berlenbach swung his left hand. Slattery fell, got up again. Four times in the tenth, three times in the eleventh round, his body lustreless now, crumpled under terrible blows. The referee stopped the fight...