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Vanished. Chinook, 12, famed brown husky lead-dog of Dog-Teamster Arthur T. Walden; from the Byrd expedition headquarters at Bay of Whales, Antarctica. His team, consisting of eight sons and grandsons, remained intact at headquarters. Chinook apparently crept away to die alone...
...year ago 9.9% of Great Britain's registered workpeople were unemployed; but the figure crept up to 11.8 last November, and to 12.2 as a bleak New Year came. Correspondents found out what this means in terms of misery, last week, when they went out to Wales and visited the great coal properties of Viscountess Rhondda, admittedly one of the most humane and generous coal operators in the Empire. Appalling was too mild a word for conditions seen...
...suffering. He taught that men should save themselves by meditation and by the practice of a high code of morality, and that they should not rely upon any divinities. He condemned the worship of idols as severely as the offering of sacrifices, but after his death those practices crept into the order he himself founded. Present day Buddhists are practically all idol worshippers. Some of them adore representations of Shapyamuni alone, but the great majority do homage to a considerable number of saints and divinities...
...Arbiter Benito Mussolini made known his will that "club," "cocktail," "trolley," "tram" and other foreign words which have crept into Italian shall be expunged. Furthermore notice was given that all patriots will distinctly sound and roll the Italian "r" particularly in "Roma...
...wife. Blind men see but Fiora did not know. His still eyes saw her first at dawn sending her lover out through the terrace, then at twilight in his arms, forgetting Manfredo who might have won her with his charity had he not ridden off again to war. He crept up on her, seized her with his bony hands, hurt her till she should tell her lover's name and strangled her when she dared defy. But the lover, too, must die and Flora's lips are poisoned for Avito who follows her to the castle crypt, for Manfredo...