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...lest his arrest lead to violence on the spot, and the Prime Minister had pledged both his own and his Cabinet's word to keep the secret. When it leaked out he saw red, jumped to the conclusion that he must have been betrayed by some disloyal civil servant, invoked the Official Secrets Act, ordered Scotland Yard to get the traitor...
...Yard forced Assistant Editor W. O. R. Griffiths of the Daily Chronicle to divulge "under protest" that Parliamentary Correspondent John T. Kirk had ferreted the secret. Routed out and third-degreed, Mr. Kirk at last uttered a name which flabbergasted his ten tormentors, the name of no petty civil servant but that of their superior, His Majesty's Secretary of State for Home Affairs, the Cabinet Minister in charge of Scotland Yard, the Right Honorable John Robert Clynes...
...sons of Abraham, traveling, idol-smashing Hebrew, became famed? Ishmael and Isaac. Isaac, son of Sarah, Abraham's half-sister by another mother, was the younger. He became the ancestor of the Israelites (of whom the Jews are the professedly sole remnants). Ishmael, born of Hagar, Sarah's Egyptian servant, was the elder. After Sarah's jealousy nagged Abraham into driving Hagar and her Ishmael into the wilderness, Ishmael became an archer, married an Egyptian girl, begot twelve sons who became ancestors of the Nomad tribes around Palestine from whom the Arabians are descended...
...consisted in pledges of frantic loyalty to the President by the Deputies. As a matter of fact several are known sympathizers of Judge Manuel Jesús Urbina of the Iquitos Judicial Court who was under arrest last week charged with instigating the 17-year-old pistol carrier, his servant. Therefore the cheers of all the Deputies, their cries of "Viva Leguía! Live, live 10,000 years!" were especially loud...
...authentic prince is thoroughly royal in the decadent sense of the word. He has his amours, his noblesse oblige, and a sense of humor that fits very well with the American conception of prince-lings on continuous leave. Alan Mowbray as Josef, the valet, is a thoroughly snobbish servant of the more malignant variety. The burden of the comedy rests on him and he carries off his part very well...