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...happened many times before, German foreign policy last week had Herr Hitler in an uncomfortable position. Constant sabre-rattling had driven France and Italy together, brought about the Franco-Russian accord and seemed likely to cost Germany all her recent gains with Poland. Private reports from Premier Göring's secret conversations with France's Laval in Poland showed that now if ever was the time to curry favor by beating a strategic retreat. That it should seem no retreat at all to Nazi ears, Realmleader Hitler shrewdly decided to beat it in as loud a voice...
...Ingrid, take you Frederick, my lawful husband, to love you through sorrow and pleasure and as a symbol I accept from you this ring...
...credited his choice of Lisa to a manuscript by an anonymous Florentine who, in fact, does not mention a Leonardo portrait of Lisa. On the other hand, he found a profile study of Isabella by Leonardo in Vienna's Imperial Museum and another in Leonardo's signet ring in the royal archives in Mantua. His difficulty was that the Mona Lisa is nearly full-face, but he thought he saw similarities. Probing on, he found a Leonardo statue in Berlin whose profile strongly resembles the known Isabella profiles. Seen full-face, this statue markedly resembles the Mona Lisa...
...York's short, swart Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia into the Circus Saints & Sinners, a club whose underlying purpose is to fit out a home for retired circus performers. Under a tent in the Hotel Gotham, Marionettist Tony Sarg set a small gilt chair in a five-foot sawdust ring, set Mayor LaGuardia on the chair. Cried Ringmaster Sarg: "Do you think he has enough hair to be Mayor?" Chorused the Saints & Sinners: "No." Ringmaster Sarg clapped a grey wig on the Mayor, added the fur trimmed cloak, tricorn hat and heavy chain of a British Lord Mayor. Then he pronounced...
...matter. Some of her stories-like the one in which a blue-stocking old maid, vacationing at a dude ranch, finds the secret of happiness and horseback-riding by letting a cowboy seduce her-seem a little too slick to be true, but most of them have an authentic ring...