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This sort of wit had made Lord Birken head a social lion, furthered his progress to the rank of No. i British arbiter of old brandy, sped him to the bridge tables of tycoons whose money he took by excellence in play...
...manifested in France is only superficial. We are a great Catholic nation and such we should remain!" No sooner was Osservatore Romano off the press than the French Embassy at Vatican City rang up Paris, was put through to the Elysee. Soon in Rome a big, French-nosed Renault sped from Embassy to Vatican. In the name of France an angry Frenchman made formal demand upon the Pontifical Secretary of State, Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, for complete retraction of Osservatore's story. "Mondieul", shrugged the Embassy press spokesman. "Is it likely that our Protestant President would say such things...
Suddenly, on the day before the Briand-Henderson speeches, Signer Grandi walked out of his Geneva hotel, slipped into his limousine, sped off in the general direction of Rome without notifying any of his fellow diplomats or even the League Secretariat...
...money car, overpowered the guard, and while the train was still in motion crawled back out through the hole with enough loot for six riotous months in the West. A year later, broke and back for more, he clung by a rope-ladder to the same train as it sped through the night towards Utica. This time he smashed a window, shot the guard's gun out of the guard's hand, kept him covered until the train got to Utica. There he boarded a locomotive and raced off down the track with another locomotive full of angry police...
...bitter difficulties of government." General Manuel Maria Ponce took com mand of the revolutionary junta. President Leguia sent an intimate, con soling message to his three daughters dis mayed at Chosica, a resort 30 miles from Lima. His two sons and he entered a swift motor car, sped to Callao, boarded Peru's other cruiser, Almirante Gran, sailed for Panama, where he had prudently arranged passage for Europe on a commercial boat...