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...which President Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Emperor Wilhelm and many another sent presents- Mr. Busch gave Mrs. Busch a diamond-and-pearl studded crown of gold valued $200,000. August A. Busch, their son, protested last week that the gems seized from his mother & sisters must be parts of a "rope of diamonds" which his father gave his mother and which she had had broken up into bracelets in Germany this year...
...Story: In almost every town, there is at least one building containing an elevator. In this small and dirty mechanical marvel there squats an old man, usually colored, holding in his hand a bit of frayed rope. When some citizen or sight-see-er enters the elevator with the desire to be hoisted upward, the old blackamoor makes a sad sound and tugs at his rope. Then there is a flash of light, a noise of grinding wheels, a draft of wind; with a slow, drunken irregularity, the rickety cage wobbles toward...
However, it was pointed out that Senor Calles probably played a waiting game. In other words he waited until the conspirators actually incriminated themselves and to that end gave them enough rope to hang themselves, so to speak. It was hardly possible for him to act before, for prosecution on the mere strength of the evidence he had would have laid him more than ever open to political partisanship in connection with the elections next year, the campaign for which was the basic cause of the revolt. He therefore attempted to dissuade the conspiring generals?Gomez and Serrano?hoping...
Queen. The extent of her surprise may be gauged, therefore, when she was introduced to a perfectly ordinary woman dressed in perfectly ordinary clothes, albeit a bit out of fashion. Not only did Queen Mary not wear a crown, nor her gorgeous coronation robes of state (although a priceless rope of pearls was around her neck and two fascinating diamonds glittered in her ears), but she showed every evidence of the charm that one expects in a human woman...
Oscar fund Tom Mix. As he said later when grilled by the state's attorney, "If it isn't Tom Mix, who is it?" For sure enough there was either Will Rogers or Tom Mix riding the famous Tony and swinging the famous rope and telling fast ones while he shot buffaloes from nickles thrown by an Indian hanging in mid-air by his toes from the shoulders of a bandit. "Whee", quoth my roommate, "Whee". So then and there I decided to take him to commencement...