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...rate of 80 per day, the didactic Frenchman in striped trousers, black jacket, white tie and suede-topped buttoned shoes wagged his short forefinger at the President in high-laced shoes and conservative business suit, making hotly such points as that France will not stand for having another Moratorium thrust forward from the U. S. "suddenly and brutally."? Equally blunt was Mr. Hoover, according to some reports, in challenging the French thesis of "Security before Disarmament," insisting on "real disarmament" when the Disarmament Conference meets...
Across one eyebrow ran a scar. Booth's eyebrow was scarred as the result of a false thrust in a stage duel...
Among the changes which life has brought to Alfonso XIII. whilom King of Spain, is that he who always used to appear in the press as the Merry Monarch, the Gentleman-Sportsman, the Genial Host, has lately been thrust into the less popular role of Stern Father. Only last month he abruptly broke the engagement of his daughter Beatriz on learning for sure that she and her sister Maria Christina were "carriers" of haemophilia, the family scourge. Last week he smashed the romance of his big-boned 23-year-old second son, the Infante Jaime. Prince Jaime is no haemophile...
Adams v. W. P. F. Secretary of the Navy Adams at first observed a strict and silent neutrality toward the Hoover-Gardiner war. Then, suddenly, he thrust himself into a similar controversy, not with the Navy League, but with its antithesis, the World Peace Foundation of Boston. The confusing spectacle was presented of President Hoover battling the Big Navy lobby while his Secretary of the Navy fought the Little Navy group. In both cases the issue was the same "misleading information...
...lein Else, Rhapsody, etc.); of a stroke, while re-writing a play; in Vienna. In a codicil to his will he directed that his funeral be "of the very last" (pauper's) class, that the money thus saved be distributed among hospitals, that a needle be thrust through his heart to remove any doubt of death...