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Onetime Prime Minister Lloyd George, stung by the revelations in the Wilson diary, made haste to reply by publishing "reluctantly" two letters addressed to him by Sir Henry Wilson...
...next licks" in the middle of St. Nicholas Avenue. Usually, because they wear their father's prestige as well as his old mitts, their snarls are effective. Last week, when Policeman Harry Gallagher told them to stop playing, their snarls ceased to be effective. Hence Devormer pere was stung into action. Bursting into the midst of the childish argument the- catcher seized Patrolman Gallagher by an arm. He shouted, full of a proud fury: "These kids are all right! They can play ball right here if they want to! They don't get in anybody...
Powder burns stung Il Duce's lips and cheek, the pistol had been fired so close. Yet he interposed to prevent a mob from lynching his would-be assassin, the Honorable Violet Albina Gibson, sister of the irish peer, William Gibson, second Baron Ashbourne. Dictator Mussolini, just, secured for Miss Gibson a safe refuge in jail. She was pronounced insane by Italian alienists (TIME, Aug. 16); but Fascist feeling ran so high that it was necessary to give her continued jail protection. Last week, one year and one month after her irresponsible act, Miss Gibson was put aboard...
...parochial bystander to name you a newspaper in Galveston, St. Louis, Butte, Jacksonville or either Portland. His face will go blank. Ask him to name you one in Omaha and out will buzz: "The Bee." One of the oldest newspapers west of the Mississippi, the Bee has stung itself into the U. S. folk-consciousness not only by its bumbling name but by appropriate industry. That its industry might reap greater rewards, it last week (in the person of Publisher Nelson B. Updike) bought out and absorbed its chief competitor, the Omaha Daily News, 28-year-old member...
...correspondents assigned to the Senate gazed down from the gallery back of the Vice President into the face and figure of Senator Heflin. The Senator was talking of them. Stung to his feet by the bantering of Senator Copeland of New York, he had risen to renew his attack upon the Catholic influence (TIME, Jan. 31). He had predicted that Dr. Copeland (red carnation) would lose his seat "unless he did some toe-kissing before the next election...