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...Hyde Park, a gathering of British friends of Leftist Spain suddenly espied in their midst last week a golden-haired girl wearing a swastika pin. "Throw her in the Serpentine!" shouted enraged friends, spat in the young woman's face, kicked her shins, threw rocks after her as she ran out of Hyde Park. The young woman proved to be the Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, a daughter of Lord Redesdale, who is pro-German, and she has worn her swastika ever since it was given her by Adolf Hitler. The Hon. Unity's 19-year-old brother...
...fidgets for its turn. There is no hidden sheen here. No sheen in the clothing, at any rate. They are impeccable--the soft white spat, glove, nosegay--the starchy white shirt, collar, handkerchief--the black topper and morning dress coat--the sparkling shoes, still black on the soles--the pin-stripe trousers breaking at the proper inch above the instep--the soft, luxuriant Ascot--and concealed somewhere in all this the wallet, the very full wallet, the wallet full of grandfather's money (rest him), or father's money (good old Dad). Or perhaps even other people's money (poor...
...pin on me putting hackneyed remarks in anybody's mouth. Your reviewer is finding fault with sworn testimony from a naval court of inquiry and Congressional committee of investigation. The conversation in Hell on Ice is directly, word for word, out of the record...
...eyes are turned on 175-pounder Captain Johnnie Harkness who has crushed the present titleholder, Ross Shaffer, and maintained an undefeated record in his matches this year. All his chances hinge on whether lie can pin the Penn State wonder once again...
...from 6? to 5? for broken pieces -which means that a pecan picker can earn from 30? to $1.50 per day. Everyone, including the owners of the shelleries, agree that these are miserable wages but the industry claims that it can pay no more, that pecan picking is a pin-money...