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Italian correspondents, impressionable, reported that their blood "ran cold'' as they watched a notorious "Mafia Queen," Giuseppa Salvo, 62, receive her 25-year sentence "with a sinister look and a ferocious leer...
...Romans peered and cheered ecstatically. They cheered the Amir, peered at his consort and their daughters. So there were Afghan amazons, the kind of women who, when a soldier is wounded, "come out to cut up what remains." After a short peer, Romans delightedly readjusted their impressions. Her Majesty, Queen Badsha of Afghanistan, is a slender, lovely woman with ivory skin, bright dancing eyes, and a quick queenly smile. She wore, last week, a close, black Parisian fur coat, a chic cloche hat. She and her daughters had never before appeared unveiled in public. Brave, they not only laid aside...
...smashed in the doorway of the fourth chamber and its contents were in confusion, hinting that some ancient thieves had been at work. Be that as it may, Mr. Carter discovered much that would quicken the pulse of any archaeologist: a bed, probably belonging to King Tut's Queen, supported by strange elongated lions bristling with beaten gold; several large picnic baskets filled with perfectly preserved dates; an ostrich feather fan, chiseled alabaster vases, ushabiti (statuettes religiously reputed to perform menial tasks for the dead). King Tut, as everyone knows, was buried some time before...
...changes to Louise's workshop. Julien serenades Louise, and reproaches her for not keeping her bargain. Overcome with remorse, she feigns illness and leaves her work to join her lover. They take up their abode on the heights of Montmartre, where in a brilliantly gay ceremony Louise is crowned queen of the quarter. One day the mother tells Louise that her father is gravely ill as the result of his daughters conduct, and humbly asks Julien to allow Louise to nurse her father for a few days. Julien consents. At home again, Louise learns that she was the victim...
...Queen, Victoria, granddaughter of Eng land's great Victoria, dislikes, in common with most Britishers, the bull fight. A sporting, "horsy" nation, they hate particularly to hear of horses blindfolded and torn to pieces in the ring. Marquez cried through the streets of London that bull fighting is not cruel. He proposed to prove it; to fight a bull in London; to show that speed, skill, sportsmanship which England worships are foundations of his trade. No horses would be disemboweled. Instead of killing the bull he would kiss it; tease the beast a little; stroke it; finally plant...