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...bosom with the jewels...
...this time a wordy battle was going on in Insull's apartment between Mrs. Insull and the spectacular Mme Zahra Couyoumdjoglou, wife of a Bagdad date merchant who has been a bosom friend of Samuel Insull since his arrival in Athens. Mrs. Insull had wanted her husband to surrender and take his chances in the U. S. courts. That seemed too prosaic for Mme Couyoumdjoglou who arranged the Odyssey of the Maiotis...
Sweltering in cassock, alb, chasuble and stole, Father Guerrera looked down at his flock. His eye fell on a cool expanse of bare shoulder and open bosom. "Elida." he roared, "go home and take off that dress...
...Rothschilds did found five banking houses in the era of the Napoleonic Wars. Shrewd enough to guess that Napoleon could not last, they supported the Allies for reasons of good business rather than sentiment. Nathan Rothschild, no bosom friend of Wellington, did bid for a loan to France after Napoleon's first defeat, sent the market down by selling his own government bonds when his bid was refused. Statesmen like Metternich had, as the picture shows, agreed with Baring Brothers, London bankers, to handle some of the bonds privately for their own profit. When Rothschild sent the prices down...
Last week's events made a Roman holiday for cartoonists. General Johnson had invited every one with a kick against NRA codes to come to Washington and make it. One cartoonist portrayed the General with swelling bosom standing before the huge and hungry lion of Public Opinion while a placard announced "General Johnson will positively put his head in the Lion's mouth." Another had the General standing back to back with a jackass ("Great American Kicker"), and urging "Go on kick, I dare ya to!" A third had the embattled General surrounded with snowballs, brickbats and dead...