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...mummy the Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi, who had ruled China since 1861, felt that she had not long to live. A prisoner on an island in the Imperial City was her nephew, the 37-year-old Emperor Kuang Hsu whose offense had been to attempt to modernize China and rid it of the burden of its old mandarins by the device of asking them all to commit suicide. On Nov. 14, 1908 two of the Old Empress's guards are said to have broken into Kuang Hsu's apartments and strangled him. As his successor the old lady...
...suppressed. When Chancellor Dollfuss reappeared in Vienna, he was ready at last to commit himself. Assured of French support (see p. 16), he boldly called the Socialists by their Heimwehr tag, "Marxist-Bolshevists," patted the Heimwehr on the back for "demanding the rapid execution of my program for getting rid of the parties and Parliament...
...Fearless). Lupino and Crabbe are Olympic swimmers. Hired by a pair of shifty rogues (James Gleason, Robert Armstrong) to run a physical culture magazine, they are soon shocked to discover what a crooked venture it really is. Crabbe is so vigorously honest that his employers are glad to get rid of him by giving him an interest in a run-down health farm and $10,000 to rehabilitate it. The 30 handsome youngsters go to the farm as health instructors. Upon opening, the farm is also thronged by unhealthy lechers, male and female, whom Gleason and Armstrong have invited with...
Through all of them runs the western impress of practicality; the bocca della verita was an eminently useful contrivance, and Virgil's talismanic glass fly was used, not to confound the people, but to rid their meat markets of flies and their cities of infection. A magician Virgil was, but a magician with a purpose, a great seer who bent his black art to the relief of human misery and the improvement of human society, and who had his place in the cosmic optimism of the middle...
...Born in the Palatinate, he was Minister of Interior of Thuringia when most Nazis were discredited. He ran the State on such enthusiastically Nazi lines that the Republican Government of Chancellor Muller stopped a $60,000 a month subsidy to the Thuringian State police in an effort to get rid of the Palatinate, Thuringia, Bavaria and the rest of them...