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Amundsen. The Pope blessed them and so did the elements. Premier Mussolini bade them adieu. They stood in their linen overalls at the cabin windows and their chief ordered that the nose ropes be cast off. The blunt silvery cigar tilted heavenward to an angle of 45 degrees. Then propellers roared, stern ropes were flung off, every one waved and up they shot toward Italy's bright blue sky ? Colonel Umberto Nobile, Lieutenant Riiser-Larsen, Major Scott (their English pilot), Lieutenant Mercier (their French pilot), Norsemen and Italians and one young female, Titina their mascot terrier ? the personnel...
...Queen. Motoring through the slums of the East End last week Queen Mary was greeted at ane point by sullen glances and dour silence, instead of the cheers which are her usual portion. Undaunted, she bade her chauffeur draw up at the curb opposite a particularly ungracious throng. Stepping out, Her Majesty evinced an interest in several brats squalling on the sidewalk. Their mothers, flattered, melted into smiles. Cried a burly oysterman: "'Ere now! Give 'Er Majesty a clap; she's worth...
Cardinal Mercier had persistent dyspepsia. There was a lesion of the stomach which a little surgical treatment would put quite to rights. But the doctors feared a 74-year-old heart might not take kindly to chloroform or ether. Without ado the Cardinal bade them anaesthetize him locally. Last week he lay on a table calmly watching a scalpel open his torso, calmly discussing with his surgeon such aspects of the human interior as he recalled from the studies made in his youth under famed Dr. Charcot in Pariss...
This is the story of Samuel M. Ralston's rise in politics. His de- parture from it was equally dignified and calm. Since early in September he had been ill with uremic poisoning. He recognized that he had not long to live; so he bade his family and friends good-by last week at his bedside in his Indianapolis home and one morning slipped into unconsciousness. Twenty-two hours later he died...
...steps of his Town Hall stood the Mayor of Eastbourne, resplendent also in his robes and chains of office. He welcomed the procession, and hospitably bade it enter. Thus assembled the Episcopal Church Congress of England...