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...Islam, Breaker of Spanish heads!" All this they shouted and much more during a week's rejoicing decreed to celebrate the marriage of Abd-el-Krim to the 23-year-old daughter of the Moroccan chieftan whom he deposed (TiME, Feb. 16, 1925, SPAIN), Mulay Ahmed ben Absalem ber Raisul, called by the press "Raisuli," self-styled "Prince of the West...
...Tabor" to any St. Ber. nard boy and he will answer mechanically, "Mr. Jenkins." They were joint headmasters: John Jenkins, a brusque punctilious Englishman with a voice that barks, an eye that explodes, and a mustache that bristles in a futile attempt to conceal the deep and challenging kindness he feels for all lads under 16; Mr. Tabor, a man who looked as if he might have sat as a model, long ago, for Mr. Punch- a very tall, sanguine, athletic Mr. Punch, with a charm that made mothers ask him out to dinner and fathers...
...incident broke the monotony of enthusiasm. At Christ Church a num- ber of larrikins (hoodlums) shouted: "Who won the War?" at the gobs. A fight might have ensued, but a shore patrol happened along and arrested a number of their brother gobs. Shore leave at Port Lyttelton was cancelled for a day, but the New Zealand press disowned the larrikins and festivities were soon resumed...
...crowd dispersed to the strains of Deutschland über Alles. The only disturbance occurred when Communists, hung like monkeys in the trees, booed, yelled, scattered propaganda leaflets among the crowd during the two minutes of silence. Several Communists were caught by the infuriated mourners, were badly mauled, taken to hospitals...
...that in 1920 only about 50% cast ballots. What is more, he declares that the native-born population are the worst offenders, because there were 21 million more native-born citizens of voting age in 1920 than the entire num- ber of votes cast...