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Learning that the home of his good friend Brand Dreibergen was afire in the village of Doorn, Holland, Wilhelm Hohenzollern mustered his houseservants, rushed on the scene just as the local fire brigade put out the blaze...
Bombardier Benott was last to be medaled. For 20 years he has been firing 21-gun salutes. As soon as he decently could, after being medaled, Bombardier Benott marched round to the front of the Palace, made ready to blaze away once more. Hundreds of eyes peered through the iron railing, focused on the small door at the right of the Palace, on the long red plush carpet leading to the dark maroon (almost black) Royal Daimler. Briskly, in an impeccable grey topper, King George walked the carpet, squiring Queen Mary amid lusty cheers. He was going to cele- brate...
...Leviathan cleared from Cherbourg amid silence, a reminder that although France and Italy signed the more nebulous portions of the Treaty they did not sign its more vital, binding clauses. More than making up for French silence, President Herbert Hoover sent the battleship Texas and four destroyers to blaze a 19-gun salute as the Leviathan neared Manhattan where Police Commissioner Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen greeted the delegates, sped them to Washington...
...clung stubbornly to his chairmanship. His friends implored him to resign for the party's good, which he vehemently refused to do. He kept far away from the White House, perhaps lest President Hoover see him, demand his resignation. In the Senate, Democrats primed their fowling pieces to blaze away at Mr. Huston when Muscle Shoals legislation, on which he had lobbied, came up there this week...
Plainly the pavements of Paris are hers to rent. In substance the Council announced that they can now be rented by anyone who will install certain approved types of lettering made with myriads of facets to reflect the sun by day, equipped with concealed lamps to blaze up from the pavements at night. Ordinary painted signs will not do. For they do not support the shrewd Council's alibi...