Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only an astral body which leaves the corporal shell in sleep or death but an etheric body even more refined than the astral. He has composed a kind of "music" which consists of combinations of colors. He once offered to do the Hindu rope trick in London's Albert Hall for $275,000. He has invented a thought-reading machine called a psychostethokyrtographmanometer which he intends to demonstrate in the U. S. this year. He believes Armageddon may come in 1937. Like many another prominent mystic, he has no sense of humor...
...London's Albert Hall last week Son Austen called on an audience of Tory imperialists to vow, in memory of the "first Englishman to see in his mind the British Empire as it is seen today in fact," that "not one yard of territory shall be torn from the Empire." Sir Austen read a telegram of congratulation from King Edward VIII. A portrait of Old Joe 50 ft. high was unveiled and the crowd could not help seeing the striking resemblance to Son Austen on the platform...
...from 1926, an additional sum amounting to nearly $26,000. The refund was figured on the ground that 447 days spent by Holmes Hall "studying the record'' was so much time wasted. The repayment was not made. So last week in Kansas City Circuit Judge Albert Reeves ordered Special Master Hall to pay up within 60 days, or else...
...into the harbor of the Free City of Danzig. Going ashore, the Leipzig's captain committed a flagrant diplomatic breach by paying courtesy calls upon all Danzig officials except the highest, His Excellency Sean Lester, League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig. To point up this insult young Albert Forster, supple-muscled leader of the Danzig Nazi Party, declared next day in his Nazi news-organ that the adjective which best describes both the League of Nations and its High Commissioner is "superfluous...
...Rockefeller & family drove back to Paris to the Elysée Palace where President Albert Lebrun promoted him to the top-notch rank of Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Replied U. S. Citizen Rockefeller, 62: "The praise should go to my father for two reasons. The first reason is that in early youth I learned from my father, who is approaching his 97th birthday in the best of health, that the greatest satisfaction comes from rendering a worthwhile service. . . . The other reason is that it is only because of my father's unprecedented generosity...