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...press stories of the revolt. In Madrid not a single paper dared to mention it at all until Don Miguel was ready with his own version. Suddenly members of the so- called National Assembly?which has no parliamentary powers?heard the click of the Dictator's silver spurs and beheld him mounting the Tribune in full regalia. They saw a beefy, self-indulgent man, but withal keen-eyed and striking despite his paunch...
...Benito Mussolini looked like a dentist or a dental student. That was before he shaved off his black, toothbrush mustache. Similarly King Alexander used to be of an insignificant appearance. Though his mind and features were slowly maturing, hardening, this change was obscured by the fact that when one beheld the King, one's attention was monopolized by the little tufts of black. Not until the "dentist" put away his "tooth-brush"?not until the historic week when His Majesty w ent to Paris and there shaved off his mustache (TIME, Nov. 26)?did 12,000,000 Jugoslavs...
...offering potent prayers for the babe in India. Presently the Goddess of Destiny was invited to enter the birth chamber and inscribe upon the forehead of the newborn child its fate. When a decent interval had elapsed, Pundit Karandikar went in to see what had happened, and clearly beheld upon the infant's brow these prophecies, or rather ordinations of the Goddess: 1.) "She will be an artistic genius, witty and intellectual." 2.) "She will marry a noble and wealthy Hindu...
...mighty aged girls for a' that. The Sister who cooks is around 80, and she told me gleefully of the monster turkey somebody had sent for Thanksgiving. How she kept dishing it up in various guises for a week. She laughed till her false teeth-if you ever beheld 'em!-fell down. Every time I think of convents, it renews my faith in human laughter. FATHER WILL WHALEN Old Jesuit Mission, Orrtanna, Pa. Father Whalen recently wrote a short story about a mediocre actress, popular in small towns. It was labeled "Twinkle, Little Star" and appeared...
...there were milder settlers in California who dreamed of golden grain and ripe fruits. When a small group of these beheld. 30 miles east of busy, sprawling Los Angeles, a hill profuse with oranges, lemons, apricots, peaches, it was also quite natural that they should invoke an Italian legend and call the spot Pomona.* Pomona it became when it was settled...