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...week passed without Chino-Foreign clashes at Shanghai, while white missionaries streamed out of the interior, to be picked up and carried to safety by warships of the Great Powers continually steaming up and down such major rivers as the Yangtze. No Occidentals were killed in China last week but there were doubtful signs that the lull only proceeded a storm of international intervention...
...Star liner Majestic bucked like a colicky broncho. Said I upon disembarking at Manhattan: 'The safety razor business is good all over Europe, and I am bringing back an order for 50,000 razors for the Kaffirs of Africa. The Kaffirs sell them to the tribesmen of the interior. Apparently they have grown weary of shells and glass as shaving tools...
John Barton Payne, Chairman of the American Red Cross and Secretary of the Interior under Wilson (1920-21): "In Bulgaria my train chugged, halted, chugged on. Peasants cheered me at every station. At Sofia, King Boris received me with gratitude. I am now on a good will tour of the world. I fell ill and King Boris' personal physician attended...
Died. Professor Luigi Luzzatti, 86, onetime (1910) Italian Premier and Minister of the Interior; in Rome. As a young man, he, a Venetian Jew, was accused of treason for starting a gondolier mutual aid society, in Venice. Besides holding government positions he created the "Peoples Banks," and two years ago was popularly nominated first president of the proposed "Italian Academy...
...time; a svelte social secretary from Virginia who has come through three marriages with a rope scar around her neck and a bright-haired daughter, but without rings or crowsfeet; an aged German baron with a limp and many liaisons; a social-climbing physician whose heart is in interior decorating; a reportorial dandy; a gangster's girl and their "oozy" baby?are other marionettes in this smart book for which so eminent a critic as Ford Madox Ford has risked an "admirable . . . absolutely astonishing...