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Geneva blossomed overnight. Before there had been little knots of industrious secrtaries and attaches. Suddenly one morning Geneva woke up to the opening of the session of the Council of the League of Nations. Foreign ministers were stepping into the city by tens. Ambassadors by scores, and here and there through the mass was a sprinkling of Premiers...
...about 11, something woke in the obscure night over their heads; at first no more than a drowsy, indistinguishable murmur, then a louder whine, like the nasal complaining of some fabulous insect; presently its eye became visible?a small inflamed pimple, swathed in huge bandages of mist. The more alert of the two campers nudged his companion...
...Spanish troops woke up. A feeling of "now's the time" swept over the officers. An offensive was projected against the Riffians who, caught between two fires, must perish or surrender, or so thought the Spanish...
...Insurgents to oppose the Administration nominee. He boldly led the attack and, but for him, Mr. Warren would probably have been confirmed-his single vote would have been enough to do it at one time. But he encouraged a number of Republicans to side against the nomination; his example woke the Democrats to united opposition that might not have existed...
...made." Dawn. In police headquarters, a night captain leaned drowsily over his desk. He felt chill dawn creep through an open door. A solitary woman came toward him. She was on the graveward side of 50, listless, tearstained, slummocky. When she began to speak, a little hysterical, the captain woke up. She told of a night spent on her knees before an unopened bed, of wrestling with God, of foreseen tortures of Hell, of crimes she must confess. Day. None of the crimes confessed had been committed by the terrified woman. The crimes were robberies from the American Express...