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...planes wrote "Carol" in the sky as the Lowe chamber met, every deputy in a dress suit. In orthodox Catholic fashion they voted that Carol never renounced his rights, that Mihai has never been King, that since July 20, 1927 the King of Rumania has been "Carol II." This blanket annulment, wiping out the events of three years, was passed by 310 "Yesses" over the "No" of Liberal Leader Vintila Brati-anu while his 39 Liberal henchmen abstained. Chamber and Senate then met together as the National Assembly, and at 2:40 p. m. by a vote...
Pilots flying the night mail through fog and rain that blanket all ground lights, follow a trail of dots and dashes which flow from radio range-beacons into their earphones. But sounds are sometimes deceiving, subject to radio interference. Skill is required to compare the relative strength of opposing signals. And at 15-minute intervals the guiding stream of signals are interrupted completely for broadcast weather reports...
...Manhattan, two old Chinese, Eng Loy, 51, and his cousin Eng Fu-wee, 62, retired to their room. Eng Loy asked for a blanket. Eng Fu-wee refused to give him one. Eng Loy grabbed the blanket. Eng Fu-wee hit Eng Loy with a meat cleaver. Eng Loy found a meat cleaver...
...stars on contract to them. It is an unusually good one-rapid, handsome, brightened with flashes of wit probably put in by Elsie Janis, who supervised it. After Leon Errol has put on a hilarious act on a hospital cot, trying to roll himself into a three-quarter blanket, the audience is informed that he was just "dying to introduce the next sketch." The usual parodies include a mystery story with Clive Brook as Sherlock Holmes and William Powell as Philo Vance, and Harry Green singing something called "I'm Isidore, the Toreador." Best sketch: Maurice Chevalier and Evelyn...
Yesterday the grave was dug, and Van Valkenberg went to the garage to get Trixie. From her blanket shroud the dog scrambled up and ran to her master. ". . . Here let us recall that in his memoirs, Fifty Years a Journalist, Melville E. Stone declared that 'the Associated Press is writing the real and enduring history of the world, and is not chronicling the trivial episodes, the scandal, and the chit-chat...