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MORTAL STAB TO AUSTRIA!! screamed virtually every newspaper in Vienna, except the Reichspost, circumspect Roman Catholic organ of tall, stern, stoop-shouldered, beak-nosed Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, Chancellor of Austria...
...Great Intellectual, the boy that Kid Shakespeare knocked for a row of midnight oilcans, will exchange bopps on the beak with the New Zealand Menace, the Plumber's Son, the Horseshoe Carpenter. They will attempt to put the snooze on each other, while the Grand Vizier of the Golden Gate takes in slightly more or slightly less than one million smackers...
...realist and a beak-nosed aristocrat, Mr. Warren cannot stomach an inscription proposed by Monsignor Ladeuze...
...contains a relief of St. Christopher with the Christ child. Around the Emperor are grouped the emblems of his sovereignty and coats of arms of the Empire, the Hapsburg dynasty. Upper and Nether-Austria, Styria, and Lombardy, together with heraldic lions and an eagle, the latter holding in his beak a ribbon with the letters A. E. I. O. U. (Austria Erit in Orbe Ultima)--the Emperor's favorite motto. His long flowing hair and delicate, refined lines of his aristocratic face heighten the ornate, romantic aspect of the whole composition. When we remember that it was during the weak...
...mythology for an international trade-mark intelligible to all nations in all languages, for Vacuum oil lubricating supply stations were dotting the earth, even to imperceptible islands of distant seas. The bright young men hit on the roc, huge bird that took Sindbad's baggy pants in its beak and carried him across mountains to drop him into a gully full of diamonds. But here a language difficulty arose. Roc sounds like rock. In German petroleum is rock-oil (Steinöl). Most unfortunately the bird of Persian mythology would not do. Medieval France was then scanned. A suitably...