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...Ethiopian Throne. Close to the astute ear of Haile Selassie in Geneva were his famed Yankee, Everett Colson, long "the Brain Trust of Addis Ababa." and his wily French lawyer, Professor Gaston Jeze. The jig might be almost up for Ethiopia, but the Great Powers were going to be stung by her Emperor in whatever vital spots he could reach...
...greatest farce ever presented." At one point 93 out of 96 Senators were absent from performance of their rarest and highest Constitutional function. Washington still believes that Judge Louderback was acquitted partly because many a Senator declined to vote guilty on evidence which he had not heard. Last week, stung by Chairman Summers' rebuke, 82 Senators were in their chairs when the Ritter trial began...
...fight three months ago McAvoy distinguished himself by knocking out Middleweight Champion Babe Risko in the first round. Eager to duplicate that achievement, he pounced out of his corner last week when the bell rang for the first round, planted two solid lefts on Lewis' face. Stung but not stunned, Lewis retaliated with a hard right. In the rounds that followed, McAvoy continued to charge his bigger, heavier adversary. Lewis settled down to the strategy of a skillful animal trainer subduing the ferocity of an angry lion cub by poking it in the face with the legs...
...Barnard College, onetime Prodigy Nathalia Crane published her fifth book of poems. They still read like the writings of a precocious little girl. Her nicest ideas are pretty cute: what if a sailing ship were loaded with honey and the ghosts of the bees that made it stung the crew to death? What if the silk worms, roses, bees went on strike? What if Manhattan's pigeons were all killed? Miss Crane is fond of alliteration's artful aid: "Clerk and crier quaffed the quiet of the quarry." When she feels like it, she can rhyme "thorn" with...
Thence to Cock Horse to cat, and I was stung exceedingly, and thence to town and to Shubert to see Water Hampden as Cyrano de Bergerac. By good fortune I did get a box seat at balcony fee--so great was the audience--and by more good fortune did seat aside Miss Williams of "Three Men on a Horse" comedy. A pretty one she is and I did talk to her with great pleasure, all the time her gentleman-friend looking daggers at me which I did pretend...