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Hands on hips, chin thrust forward, General Julius Gömbs, the heel-clicking Premier of Hungary, faced correspondents in his country's Legation at Rome last week, bright-eyed with satisfaction at ne gotiations which he had just concluded with Premier Mussolini...
...disposed of Shelley's corpse were Poet Leigh Hunt (who wrote a nerve-wracking description of the event), Poet George Gordon Lord Byron, and Adventurer Edward John Trelawny. As Shelley's incinerating ribs fell apart on their pyre of driftwood, adventurous Trelawny, a lion of a man, thrust in his brawny arm, snatched out the simmering heart. Cried Lord Byron: ''Don't repeat this with me. Let my carcass rot where it falls...
...more years the furnaces were cold. Duquesne called it Depression. One day last week, Duquesne whistles shrieked, Duquesne bells clanged. Followed by the city council and most of the leading businessmen. Mayor Crawford marched into the local works of Carnegie Steel Co., picked up a long iron blow pipe, thrust the red-hot tip through a hole in a furnace, igniting a mass of oil-soaked waste. Laborers did the same through eleven other holes and Furnace No. 4 was then blown in. That night Duquesne paraded in celebration...
...Milk St., Boston, Mass,--I Conant tell you who the next president will be but Hoover he is he will be Merriman tonight. I don't want to Shattuck any hopes but the Overseers have their Baxter the wall. While they may Perry the Corporation's first thrust, they haven't much Lee-way. Now Prexy must be a Munn whose Wadsworth a lot so he will not drive up to the president's house in a second-Han'ford. There is always the grand-father Clark in the corner. But cooney Corporation will pick man whose name...
...small part of his inheritance. He is a Duke in Portugal, a Prince in Holland and recipient of a $20,000-a-year pension from the Belgian government. Ciudad Rodrigo, scene of one of his grandfather's great victories and centre of the Spanish estates thrust upon him by a grateful Cortes, is a little fortified Spanish town between Salamanca and the Portuguese frontier. Tourists bless the ultra-British foxhunting Duque de Ciudad Rodrigo, for in that town is one of the quaintest, best run inns in Western Spain, the Hospederia del Castillo de Enrique...