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...Social disturbance and murder until then rife at Barcelona, Valencia and Zaragoza have been absolutely quelled, peace and prosperity restored to those towns and in every part of the Peninsula where the rot was spreading...
...feel I'm playing an excellent game for me. I love golf." He likes duck shooting too but has no time for it. He has had no opportunity to travel out of the ninth Federal Reserve District-Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He has a daughter, aged 13, another, aged 10. He was only 18 when he went to work as a bank messenger, because he could find no other job. And it has taken him twenty-seven years to reach the highest banking job in the land. For that success...
Thus ends the play. In the intervening hour or so is spun the bitter story of a planter's lonely wife on the Malay Peninsula. There is no moral pointed, except perhaps that love sometimes dies young and for no reason. Leslie Crosbie was not a wholly vicious woman. Throughout the story, which ends in her confession that she shot her lover Hammond because he was living with a Chinese woman, she strangles truth lest her husband find out her guilt and the discovery break his heart. After the first few moments her every move is to spare from...
...puzzle belonging to science were reported solved last week. Manna, gift of Heaven upon which the Israelites fed on their exodus from Egypt to Canaan, was but the excretion from the bodies of certain coccids, a kind of plant lice which infested the tamarisk shrubs of the Sinai Peninsula...
...month's exile, comes news of a break in relations between Albania and Jugo-Slavia forced on by the latter because of the arrest of a Serb interpreter. The flimsy pretext discloses the immovability of Jugo-Slav opposition to Italy in Albania or anywhere else in the Balkan peninsula. There will be no war this time certainly, but unless imperialistic policy changes its color in the near future there will come sooner or later an explosion. Near Eastern rivalries no more intense set the world aflame on the murder of an Archduke. Interpreters are only a little less serviceable...