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Last week the British Cabinet finished a two-week job of editing and polishing Mr. Eden's questions, after which the extraordinary document was dispatched to Britain's Ambassador to Germany Sir Eric Phipps to be handed to Adolf Hitler. All the good Conservative caution and breeding of which British gentlemen are capable had gone into toning down the original questions. In the whole document there was not a single question mark. Cabinet members had struck out all reference to Austria, Memel, Eupen and Malmedy, keeping those possible objectives of Adolf Hitler beyond the pale of polite conversation...
...reduced to the companionship of the squatters' colony down on the Bend. Though Julian and Henry's wife thought they disliked each other heartily, little by little they changed their minds. Almost before Julian knew it, he was her lover. He hated the deception, hated her caution that would not leave a comfortable respectability to run away with him. When Henry discovered their secret Julian found that he hated her and she him. Relieved to be getting away from the whole thing and off to college, he 'sternly decided to have nothing more to do with women...
...Evalyn was growing up, and there was just no holding the girl. She was high-spirited, and that was a fact. Father chuckled and said she was a caution. They could not keep her in school, she did not seem to like school, but she got all the education money could buy. In Paris, for instance, the Walshes got clubby with Chicago's Mrs. Potter Palmer, and Evalyn was allowed to touch her stomacher. When they let Evalyn go abroad on her own to study French and art and music she had a wonderful time buying clothes and automobiles...
...Having posed in Santa Claus costume, Capt. Musick took off with the first load of Pacific air express. After 700 miles he met a storm. True to his traditional caution, he turned about, returned to San Francisco...
...with Peden to leave nine teams in the race. In the last hour, with three teams tied in mileage, the pedaling became furious. Vopel went sprawling at the end of the fourth sprint, gamely remounted in seven minutes. Then he and Kilian put on the pressure. Throwing aside all caution, they zipped around the saucer, matching every effort of Letourner and his new partner Brocardo. Their daring won them 14 of the 27 final sprints, added 72 points to their total every time. Though tied in mileage (2,477 miles and seven laps) with two other pairs, Newcomers Vopel & Kilian...