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With a rustle and vibrant clearing of Her Majesty's throat the Speech-from-the-Throne began. It touched first, continued to touch on unemployment, economic depression. Keynote: "Strenuous efforts and wise policy, with God's help, must pave the way to better times...
...held). The businessmen fell silent and looked at three austere caskets on the edge of the deck. The Rev. P. Roland Wagner of Norfolk fumbled with a prayer book. Virginia's Governor John Garland Pollard, onetime William & Mary law professor, smiled his famed crooked smile, cleared his throat...
Died. Lon Chancy, 47, cinemactor, (The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera, The Unholy Three) famed portrayer of the grotesque; after a series of illnesses which included an attack of pneumonia, a throat-operation; of anemia, following three transfusions, at Hollywood...
Died. Marcia Millikan, I, daughter of Dr. & Mrs. Clark Millikan, granddaughter of famed Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan; of strangulation when a screen fell on her throat as she lay in her crib at her grandparents' home in San Marino, Calif...
...County is stronger. Things look bad for Olivia. Mr. Pim is recalled by an irate and agitated family council, and pressed for further particulars. Says he: "Why, the man died at Marseilles, I thought I told you about his getting a fishbone stuck in his throat; that was the whole point of the story." This clears the situation a little, but not enough: George and Olivia have been living in sin for nearly five years! At the end of this harrowing day, however, Mr. Pim reappears once more, whispers to Olivia that now he remembers the man's right name...