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...After someone detected this amazing theft, the funeral was held amid suppressed excitement and Lord Halifax's remains were interred in the family vault. "They even stole some of his war decorations," shocked servants told newsmen, "and some decorations that didn't have any diamonds they just threw away on the lawn...
...Cullinan Diamond, big as an orange, one hot January day in 1905. A $5,000 find several years ago enabled Jacobus Jonker to hire a black Kaffir boy to do his digging. One of the Jonker sons was watching the black one day last week when the Kaffir threw his hat in the air, screamed: "Good baas [master], I found...
...Walska went to Havana to sing. Harold McCormick heard her there, appreciated her if the Cubans did not, invited her to sing with the Chicago Grand Opera which he was then backing. Her debut was to be in Zaza but at rehearsal Conductor Giuseppe Gino Marinuzzi threw down his baton, threatened to quit the company. McCormick stood up for Walska, demanded that she should be allowed to sing. But in the excitement Walska disappeared. Not once did she ever sing with the Chicago Opera...
...hastily decreed, on the day after the fire, by President von Hindenburg at the frantic insistence of Herren Hitler, Goring and Goebbels. Would not Old Paul commute the sentence of Dutchman van der Lubbe to imprisonment? All Holland was hopeful when the Nazi-controlled Press threw out strong, repeated hints that President von Hindenburg would accede to Queen Wilhelmina's request. Overnight came a Nazi smack in the face to Holland. Van der Lubbe's head had been cut off, the German Government announced, without prior notice of any sort to either Queen Wilhelmina or the German public...
...interrupted by occasional dialog between human characters, accompanies the career of Smoky, a range-loving mustang who becomes leader of his herd by outfacing a mountain lion. After being trained to the saddle by broncho-busting Clint (Victor Jory), Smoky is stolen and beaten by a cowhand he once threw. At length he stamps his captor to death, heads for the open range. Clint gives him up for lost, goes away to be a meatpacker. Captured, Smoky becomes successively a rodeo broncho, a riding horse, a junkman's nag. Just as he ambles into a slaughterhouse he is found...