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...hitting Ibn Saud, King of the Hejaz, had stopped a brief but bloody revolt. Correspondents hurried down to Dhaba on the Red Sea to see what all the shooting was for. They got there at dusk as the desert heat was lifting. A crowd of little boys in dirty, torn abas were shrilly playing football on the dusty plain. Their football did not bounce. It was the lacerated, eyeless head of Hamad Ibn Ra fada, defeated chieftain of the Bili tribe...
...Grandfather George Platt Brett is board chairman of Macmillan Co., publishers) lives Dr. Edward Nicholas DeWitt, able ophthalmologist, 1917 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School where he studied under famed Dr. George Edmund de Schweinitz. Dr. DeWitt knew a way to stitch up Baby Brett's torn...
...hats rolled on the ground and were trampled at Ascot one day last week. Women, caught up with men in a pushing, yelling mob, had their gowns torn, their hats mashed down over their eyes, their shoes scuffed and muddied. In the royal box the Queen and the Prince of Wales stood up and waved excitedly as the crowd surged about the winning horse. The excitement was not simply because a colt named Limelight had just won the Jersey Stakes, but because Limelight was being led in from the track by its proud owner-King George...
...Congo witch-doctor he will shoot his sixth, silver bullet at a squirming, greenweed crocodile. But other black men will come after him with silver bullets then, still beating their tom-toms. They will bring him out of the forest dead, all his fine clothes gone except for underpants torn to look like a primitive breech cloth. It will be time then for people to decide whether or not Russian-born Louis Gruenberg has successfully translated Eugene Anhelous Emperor Jones into opera...
...bosom, as did collegians and Greenwich Village girls. Popularity was the death of the Fakirs Ball It got so tough it had to be killed. There were battles royal on the ballroom-floor. Drunken youths played the hat & coat game in the cloakrooms. Chorus girls had their clothes torn off. Somebody shattered the chandeliers in the Hotel Astor; next year the Fakirs rolled table tops down the Commodore stairway, injuring several passersby. The Fakir exhibitions stopped in 1917, but the Ball went on. In 1923 New York hotelkeepers banded together and announced that so far as they were concerned...