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...Marius Humbert Laurent Tortero Mme Justine de Mawer and her son Felix Edmond Brooks Dascomb, U. S. newsreel photographer, made a complete record of the assassination while bullets whistled round his ears. Four days later he dropped dead from a cerebral hemorrhage. Petrus Kalemen was not alone in his plot. Acting on secret tips, police on the French border arrested two men attempting to slip over the line into Switzerland: Ivan Raitch and Zvonemer Posposil. According to the French police, Raitch, Posposil and Kalemen were members of a Croatian terrorist organization known as Ustashi, sworn to the assassination of King...
Pipes are here laid in a vertical position, while between them a sort of wire netting is strung, the finished ensemble being dignified by the name of fence. Every day the fence surrounding the circular grass plot is carefully erected and painted, and every night some thoughtful student demolishes it with his Rolls-Pierce...
...other departments, students deliver mail, manufacture museum cases and cabinets, assist in research of all kinds, compute experimental results, plot graphs, run errands, catalogue specimens, and type manuscripts...
...worst eye-sores about Cambridge is the plot of land controlled by the college on the corner of De Wolfe and Mill Streets. Overgrown with weeds, surrounded by a broken-down fence, it appears to serve absolutely no useful purpose. Meanwhile students are forced to hire costly garages or run the risk of an expensive and annoying appearance in court. The land could be filled in, levelled off with cinders, and turned into a satisfactory parking space at a very nominal cost. A small charge, sufficient to defray the original outlay and to provide for the up-keep might well...
...plot, which concerns Miss Rogers' efforts to win a divorce from her geol-Edward Everett Horton and Alice Brady, make the most of these occasions. The climax comes when, through a misunderstanding, Mr. Astaire shows up in Miss Rogers' apartment early in the morning as her co-respondent, shortly followed by a professional home-wrecker, a musical and toothy young Italian. Through the combined efforts of the professional and the amateur and a helpful waiter Miss Rogers finally succeeds in freeing herself from her husband and dancing off to happiness with Mr. Astaire...