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...limp guests stood up, rejoicing that Cantor J. Briah had begun the ceremony. Came a stern, interrupting voice-that of the cantor of the synagog, one A. Gartenhaus. He forbade the function to proceed unless he conducted it. The haggard wedding guests, frenzied at the threat of another delay, conducted Cantor Gartenhaus to the basement, there throttled him until the couple were united. On leaving the synagog, Cantor Gartenhaus was overtaken, severely pummeled, deprived by violence of six yellow teeth. At 9 p. m., a number of wedding guests were arrested...
Altogether, the House of Lords behaved with too much gayety in the face of this stupendous bill for the emancipation of the male. Perhaps they feared that Lady Astor would soon make good her threat to make the House of Lords co-educational, and so decided to have their little fling at a woman while they could...
...favor by business men, one of whom hoped that the Shipping Board would follow the boats into the junk pile: "Let the tail go with the hide." Furtively, shipowners, native and foreign, prayed for the demolition of the ships because, bad as they are, they constitute a vaguely potential threat of competition...
Carr Is Blue Threat...
...speech was taken in London as meaning a distinct warning to Germany and France, in Berlin as a warning to France, in France as a warning to Germany. But France, after thinking things over, became convinced that Mr. Houghton's speech contained a direct threat to her, was accordingly indignant, hotly resented being classed with Germany as "Europe...