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Armed with a magnifying glass and cheered on by old Napoleon buffs, De Langle began to unscramble the gibberish. He found that General Bertrand had made the job still more difficult by referring to himself not as "I," but as "Bertrand," or "the Grand Maréchal," or worst of all, since it invited confusion with Napoleon himself, as "he." It was three long years before De Langle could figure out who was talking to whom about what (at times even proper names were abbreviated to initials), and could interpret the above example...
...Brooklyn Handicap, he set a world's record for a mile and a furlong (1:48.2), beat both King Saxon, fastest sprinter of the year, and Omaha, winner of the Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes. Week later, in the Detroit Chal lenge Cup, he beat Azucar, winner of last winter's $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap. Last week Discovery's job was the inaugural running of the Butler Handicap, at the Empire City track in Yonkers, N. Y., oldtime project of the late Grocery Tycoon James Butler. Many racegoers thought it would prove Discovery's hardest...
...Gordon McKay Scholarships in the Engineering School were awarded to: R. Burton Power, Harold E. Ellithern, Armig G. Kandoian 4E.S., Morland King, Robert W. Schindler Gr.E.S., Harner Selvidge Gr.E.S., James E. Shephered, Gordon W. Theisinger Sp.E.S., Charles H. Wolls, Gr.E.S., Chal Yek, Gr.E.S., Donald F. Wilcock 4E.S., Alden B. Greninger Gr.E.S., Paul B. King, Jr. Gr.E.S., James L. Martin Gr.E.S., and Stanmore V. N. Wilson Gr.E.S...
...impersonated by some of Hollywood's foremost impersonators. From left to right they are: Director Erich von Stroheim, with his shako cocked over his nose; Producer Joe Schenck as a colonel of the cuirassiers; Douglas Fairbanks of the Hussards de la Garde; Grenadier Clive Brook; le Maréchal Sid Grauman; Adolphe Menjou as Marshal Ney; William Powell as an aide de camp. To the left lies Groucho Marx as a dead trumpeter. In the lower right-hand corner Charlie Chaplin, as a drunken priest, is clutching a bottle of champagne and refusing a drink of brandy from Vivandi...
...State reception, with the very corpulent Mayor O'Keefe and other officials standing by. There were bouquets, compliments and invitations for Mademoiselle. For M. 1'Ambassadeur there was an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Loyola University, such as was given to le Maréchal Foch some years ago. Then they set out with Maurice de Simonin, the French consul-general, for the small towns and villages-Donaldsonville, Napoleonville, St. Martinville, New Iberia, in the bayou country...