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...well-established fact that Rai died from the effects of bayonet wounds which he received from a British soldier on Oct. 30, the day Sir John Simon visited Lahore. Rai at this time had been leading a peaceable demonstration against the reception of Simon...
...Intruse L'Afeul W. B. Cowan, Jr. '29 Le Pere W. D. Carter '31 L'oncle E.S. Fetcher, Jr. '31 Diana Miss Bentrice Clough Genvieve Mis Helen Streeter La Soeur de Charite Miss Isablla Grandin Gringoire Louis XI Y. H. Buhler '20 Plerre Gringoire W. B. Cowen, Jr. '29 Simon-Fournier W. D. Carter '31 Olivier-let-Daim F. G. Shaw, Jr. '31 Loyse Miss Laura Robbins Nicole Audry Miss Helen Streeter
Bolivia is named, of course, after famed Simon Bolivar, deliverer of the South American continent from Spain...
...prehistoric splendor of the Chimu Empire, long, long before the great Imperial civilization of the Incas rose, to be conquered in later turn by Renaissance Spain. After three centuries of Spanish rule-galleons, slaves and sweated gold-romance in Peru was still at full tide. Only then came Simon Bolivar-hero of a continent-to end the Spanish rule of South America where it began, in Lima. In consequence Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Hoover can visit no South American capital whatsoever without finding, in some especially public place, a statue of BOLIVAR. Though born a Venezuelan his exploits included becoming President...
...debts of the Mercury are paid, said Editor Mencken; it is showing a profit. Advertisers are faithful and enthusiastic. Imitators of the magazine have turned up, but the Mercurians never fail to "distinguish between the simon pure article and the second best." All enemies have been overcome, even to the "wowsers" of Boston...