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...Prime Minister was at his comfortable best when he got slowly to his feet, leaned heavily on the dispatch box and observed like a true John Bull: "I don't think there was any Fascism in Italy before Communism began. The same thing was true of Germany. Force begot force, as it always does. In this country, thank God, these two forces are not worth that together!"-here Mr. Baldwin snapped his fingers. "A curious feature," he continued, "is that at this moment in England we are reversing the process of Italy and Germany, and the petty efforts...
...Moro subjects, plus his pension from the Philippine Government, plus his land rent from British North Borneo Co. With this wealth the Sultan kept a primitive court where he enjoyed the favors of scores of wives in his youth, several in his old age, although he begot no offspring. Three nieces, however, he adopted as his daughters. No sooner had he died than one of them, Princess Dayang Dayang,* began to quarrel with Hadji Butu, the late Sultan's grand vizier, over who was to succeed Kiram II. Dayang Dayang won the first round. Since the Sultan...
Good Sport-Japan's Imperial House has no name. On April 29, 1901 the present Emperor was born and named Hirohito while his grandfather the great Emperor Meiji was yet alive. Because his father was strong neither in body nor in mind (though he begot four lusty sons), Prince Hirohito was thrust into every form of sport, even wrestling. Justly and modestly he has observed: "I am not really good at any sport. In swimming, however, I rather think I can hold...
...became the ancestor of the Israelites (of whom the Jews are the professedly sole remnants). Ishmael, born of Hagar, Sarah's Egyptian servant, was the elder. After Sarah's jealousy nagged Abraham into driving Hagar and her Ishmael into the wilderness, Ishmael became an archer, married an Egyptian girl, begot twelve sons who became ancestors of the Nomad tribes around Palestine from whom the Arabians are descended...
...landed proprietor on the Isle of Jersey, Thomas William Barker, who died some 15 years ago. Miss Barker was in service at Mons and elsewhere in the War area as a Red Cross nurse and ambulance driver. In 1918 she married an Australian officer, Colonel Harold Arkell Smith, who begot her two children. Some five years later she discovered her tendency to transvestism, yielded to it, renounced home and family, courted and married Druggist's Daughter Alfreda Emma Howard, moved to the congenial military centre of Andover, and found apparent happiness...