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According to latest dispatches the dove of peace hovers once more above the Nile. The Egyptian bomb had been set and timed to blow up the vestiges of English power. After much smoke and a few sparks, it exploded with a resounding "Piff!", and instead of the British lion, Zagloul Pasha heads the casualty list...
...exhausting spinster whose lover went away to China years ago. In point of fact, his affections remained at home with her sister, an item which the audience learns on his return in the first act. For the rest of the evening, he drums up courage to beard the spinster lion and does just that in time for a happy peroration. The intent is comic...
Collier's Weekly, for Nov. 15, carried the record of one Harry L. Reichenbach, publicity hoaxer extraordinary. One read of "T. R. Zaun" and his pet lion, who registered at a Manhattan hotel just before the film Tarzan of the Apes took the screen; of "Achmet Ben" and party, who entered Manhattan on a "secret" search for "The Virgin of Stamboul"; of the children paid to stare into a store window at September Morn, upon her debut in this cold world, until Anthony Comstock came and raised the fuss that sold Miss Morn into the millions...
...Washington, and Washington with inviting eyes looks back on them." the authority of his voice will seem to establish the fact. Speaking from the same platform from which Premier Baldwin urges a proper solution of Anglo-American relations, one seems to hear the convincing roar of the British lion himself...
...Annapolis, two cripples met, one a self-styled lion, one a so-called goat. Limping, hobbling, they tussled until nightfall, when the Navy goat had to admit that the absence of Shapely, one of its curliest horns, was too great a handicap. The Penn State or Nittany lion came off with two field goals. Score: Penn State 6, Navy...