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Subsequent despatches gravely reported: "The Prince of Wales is much perturbed over the loss of a highly treasured inkstand which he used constantly aboard the Repulse." Queried many: How lest? Did he throw it, when annoyed, like Prince Bismarck?* Like George Washington?† Like Martin Luther...
...little knoll near Leuthen, Saxony, stood Defense Minister Gessler of the Reich, last week, with General Mueller, commander of the Saxon Reichswehr, and some seventy of the highest officers of the German Army. Before them a body of infantry "advanced" toward the town in "war games." Lest the maneuvers should lack reality a battery of heavy machine guns, planted out of sight behind the officers, prepared to lay down a "protective barrage" before the infantry as it advanced...
...mind people who invest in yellow carnations with a big red "H" pasted on them, and my gizard stays pretty steady on seeing Harvard Square golfers buying their winning feathers after the game, but there are a couple of things which makes my gorge rise. The first and the lest offensive is the sticker craze. I suppose I'll have to stomach the exhibition of foreign baggage labels. I've got a few on my bags myself--but the stickers which explain in bold-faced type that Harvard College is responsible for a bag or a trunk and the manners...
...minutes and two seconds 215 pounds of Negro Harry Wills laced, slashed and uppercutted at 203 pounds of White Floyd Johnson, lowan fisticuffer. Then Johnson's seconds flirted a white towel-tossed it onto the canvas lest the "Brown Panther" should massacre their lowite. Ten thousand fight fans trooped out of Newark Armory (N. J.) after having seen exactly what they had expected-one of the most savage fights ever witnessed in the East. Pugilist Wills swelled out his chest of rippled ebony...
Pale, haggard, he sought the villa of Joseph Farinelli, his wealthy friend. His bodyguard, 20 strong, was swelled by a cordon of Swiss police desperately uneasy lest he be assassinated. Secretly he returned the official calls of his distinguished confréres, who were busy with the final details of the Pact. In these last-minute negotiations he took no part. With the fears and the aloofness of a Sultan he remained secluded until the hour when he must add his pen scratch to the others...