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...Christmas tree and a Santa Claus. The Santa Claus (a disguised newspaper correspondent) hailed the President-Elect as "greatest fisherman," and presented him with a gift which he said would prove valuable. It was a toy fish labelled Congress. Mr. Hoover asked what bait was needed for this fish. Soft soap, said Santa...
Through angry muttering crowds of Monégasques, Prince Pierre proceeded resolutely to confer with members of the resigned National Council, and especially with soft-voiced, steel-eyed M. Léon, the young manager of Monte's famed Casino...
...certainly 500,000, a dumpy, pale yellow ground sloth, 8 feet long from its small head to its thick tail, lumbered terrorized near what is now El Paso, Texas. Some predatory beast was chasing it, perhaps a sabre-toothed tiger. The sloth was a plant-eating animal with soft teeth and did not know how to fight. So it could only lope towards a hole it knew. It reached the hole, scrambled over the ledge, fell 100 feet to the bottom. Bats who mat> the place their perch fluttered and squeaked fearfully, angrily. The preying beast went away...
...Expensive cars are grouped together on a carpet floor of the exhibition building. Soft-voiced salesmen, in tuxedos, point out the glories...
Keenest Roman interest focused on the man from whom Il Capo snatched the Ministry of Colonies-Signor Luigi Federzoni. Some have called this strong and enigmatic statesman "The Soft Speaker for the Vatican." All know that he has long been the only one of Benito Mussolini's ministers from whom harassed King Vittorio Emanuele III has always been able to secure a countersignature for his royal acts. Constitutionally the pen scratch of His Majesty is of no effect, unless countersigned by a member of the Government. Therefore when Signor Federzoni's ministry was snatched away, last week...