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...with O'Mahoney, was called into the ring, introduced to the customers. Suddenly Yvon Robert stripped off overcoat, sweater, trousers, tried to pin O'Mahoney then & there. Dragged away, Wrestler Robert sat at the ringside, heckled the champion who was downing Judson with ease. O'Mahoney, stung by the verbal pricks of this upstart, demanded an immediate settlement. Spang into the ring flounced Challenger Robert, collared O'Mahoney, held his shoulders to the mat for 30 seconds. The Irishman kicked himself free, floored the Canadian with two blows. Up Robert rose, bashed O'Mahoney through...
...next February or March." In Moscow the official Bolshevik news-organ, Izvestia, promptly announced to the world proletariat that Uruguay had attempted to ''blackmail" Russia by threatening to break off relations unless Montevideo was given a large Soviet order for Uruguayan cheese. This was supposed to have stung Dictator Stalin into assuming a defiant attitude-i. e.. Millions for Revolution but Not One Cent For Cheese. Neutral observers considered it more likely, if cheese really entered the picture, that whichever Soviet official refused to buy the cheese is now getting a wigging. To the Comintern a Soviet...
Shouting and banging imperiously for action, Comrade Ordzhonikidze stung Russians in their most sensitive spot-their pride-by telling them how the Capitalists who had sold tools to Bolsheviks were snickering up their sleeves, sure that clumsy Russians would never get the hang of mechanized technique. Already in Russia the breakdown of a machine was often the signal to shoot the operator "for sabotage." Commissar Ordzhonikidze demanded something more constructive...
...vacation at a mountain snuggery, the theory of all concerned being that in her ugly make-up the cinemactress would be safe with any man. Soon after Brent has seen her not only minus the disguise but minus most of her clothing. Miss Rogers begins to cure herself. Stung by Brent's superciliousness toward actresses, she takes him to see one of her pictures in a village cinema, makes an enthusiastic personal appearance before she realizes her phobia is gone. Remarkable sight: Miss Rogers in black wig, spectacles, false teeth, which make her so thoroughly unattractive that...
...Readers found it an extraordinary portrait of a despot at the moment of his greatest eminence and the beginning of his fall, might question its authenticity only because the story of its discovery seemed too pat to be believed. After Napoleon's fall Caulaincourt lived in retirement, was stung to reply when rivals published memoirs that discredited him. His family withheld his exposures, fearing libel, until 1914. During the German invasion the manuscript was walled up in the Caulaincourt Chateau, lost when the chateau was blown up, found in 1933 when a garbled copy of the original was already...