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Suddenly came a sound at the casement window. It was pushed open, and a seven-year-old boy climbed onto the sill. He was supported by a weary, drawn-faced woman, Mme. Zizi Lambrino, one-time morganatic wife of Prince Carol. The towheaded boy was their son, Mircea...
...Lambrino screamed, clutched her side. Carol, vexed, rushed to the window, banged it shut and telephoned to the Prefect of Police. He demanded protection against such picketing by his morganatic wife and her son whose legitimacy he does not recognize. Soon two Parisian detectives were patrolling Carol's yard. When little Mircea came next day with his mother and shouted "Papa! Papa!" from the gate, the detectives told him to move...
...wrote on every other line. Meanwhile six proctors are rushing to his aid, the head proctor in his haste forgetting the table in front of him and taking a headlong live on to the floor, thereby hurting himself not a little. Overcome, I jump out of the west rose window and hastily repair to Wadsworth House for a little special instruction in mental hygiene...
...most hideous vices. . . ." Judge Lindsey urged a legal form that would permit such couples to live together as long as they mutually desired. He thought that the mere knowledge that they could be free at any time by asking for a divorce card at a clerk's window would almost invariably make them want to stay together and enter upon the later, more carefully prepared step of having children. Procreative marriages would be made more difficult of dissolution than at present. Open and above-board birth control was, of course, essential to the scheme. The combined innovations would...
They rushed to the window in their nightgowns, screaming. The street was full of people. In a minute the Fire Chief's car came round the corner. The driver ran upstairs in the next building and climbed across a ledge to their window. When the ladders came he handed one girl to a fireman and carried the other down himself. The crowd cheered. Now the girls remembered the actor. A fireman went back for him. He found him sitting in his pajamas in a chair by the window. He was dead. His body was burned but recognizable. There...