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...Treasury, Whitehall, London, who is now delivering the Lowell Institute lectures in Boston, will speak on the British Treasury. On March 28, there will be a talk on "Political Theory and Political Practice" by Ernest Barker, professor at Cambridge University; and Charles Beard will lecture on "Hair Trigger Governments in Eastern Europe" on April...
Came a knock at the door of her suite. She opened it. "Are you going to marry him?" chorused the reporters, trigger-fingers quivering on their pencils. Miss Morrow laughed. "Hold that pose!" chorused the cameramen, shaking powder in their flashlight pans...
...such moments policemen should be calm. One of the Pons policemen, said to be a relative of Emile Combes, lost his head utterly. Drawing his revolver he trained it on the clerical iconoclast with the sledge hammer, pulled trigger, shot the youth dead. Cooler policemen rounded up the tattered mob men and then discovered to their horror that they were disguised Royalist followers of famed Leon Daudet, son of the great novelist Alphonse Daudet, stubborn and wrongheaded champion of Roman Catholicism and the Royal House of France. The Pope has excommunicated Leon Daudet and his followers (TIME, April 9). Their...
...cement made a famed Czechoslovak architect put pistol to his temple and pull the trigger...
...Near Cincinnati lately, on the estate of Julius Fleischmann Jr., a Mrs. Rockefeller tried trapshooting for the first time. She was surprised and pleased to see one "bird" after another disintegrate as fast and often as she pulled trigger. Those present kept it a secret from Mrs. Rockefeller that behind her while she was shooting stood a crack shot who, each time she cried, "Pull," took aim at the sailing pigeons, waited, shot when she did. Not even persons long used to shooting shotguns can detect by ear the shooting of another shotgun almost simultaneously with their...