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...hundred feet in the air the quick clap of a snapping guy-rope sounds no worse to the ear of a tight-rope walker than do the echoes of the Deutschland bombing sound to the Non-Intervention Committee in London. Only to be expected after such an attack is the news of the bombardment of Almeria and of the mobilization of the German fleet and of the British squadron at Gilbraltar. The Italian and German withdrawal from the Spanish Non-Intervention Committee is a far more serious event, however, stopping dead the peace negotiations which in the past fortnight were...
...long meal. That Germany and Italy will go out of their way to fight in Spain is the lesson of the latest crisis, and the moral therefrom is that positive pressure of an economic or political nature must be applied to these countries before they wholly upset the tight-rope team of Europe swaying on the wire called Peace...
...much-maligned man. In a 411-page examination of the contemporary documents in Kidd's case, Sleuth Wilkins sniffs the cold, obscured trail like an eager beagle. His beaglish enthusiasm, indeed, takes Author Wilkins in a wide circle: after attempting to show that Captain Kidd was no rope-worthy pirate, he goes on to assert that Kidd's treasure island actually exists, and he knows where...
...Hermann Doehner related in a husky monotone how she tossed two of her children out of a window, then scrambled out herself with the third. One child died, as did her husband. The others had chances of pulling through. Stewardess Elsa Ernst got away by sliding down a rope. Said she: "I could hear my hair crinkling as it burned." Passenger Herbert O'Laughlin, who ran black-faced into the hangar looking for a telephone to call his mother in Chicago, said: "I was in my cabin . . . packing . . . when I felt a slight tremor. . . . There was very little confusion...
...getting the short end of the rope this year, one other solution presents itself. That is to give the men not admitted to Houses the same privileges as those who are lucky enough to live in the river palaces already. This would mean that about thirty additional non-residents would use the facilities of each House. Such an increase, though perhaps tending to nullify the effort to make the Houses "individual", would not overburden the commissariat, the common rooms, or the libraries...