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...they drove up to Her Majesty's palace at The Hague, the delegates saw only a large, immaculate wooden house, with a severe square courtyard opening directly off a public street. The house was full of crisp, sweet-scented Dutch flowers, primly arranged in tall vases. There was drink to match the national taste of every guest: French champagne, German hock. British whisky, Italian lacrima christi, Japanese sake, also water and long black cigars from Dutch Sumatra...
...brilliant young Chinese banker of barely 38 swiveled round from his desk in Shanghai last week, peered keenly through tortoise rimmed glasses at a respectful group of correspondents, read in flawless English a crisp, resolute announcement. He was sick and tired, he said, of raising the scores of millions of dollars which Nationalist China has been squandering annually on bootless wars. He, T. V. Soong, scion of the great "Soong Dynasty" of Shanghai bankers, would no more be a party to China's orgy of military waste. In fine, he announced his resignation as Finance Minister of the Nationalist...
Helen ("Big Helen") Wills, in crisp white linen, crisply set down Mrs. Phoebe Watson...
Toward evening Babe, Donna & Duce motored inland to spend the birthday night at their rustic farm, the Villa Carpena. Lights were doused early. Next day the dutiful Duce bade his spouse a crisp farewell, sped back to his chosen busy bachelorhood in Rome. There, after buying a red carnation?just now his favorite boutonniére?the Dictator settled down to work, found an appalling piece of work...
Eventually it was in the maize field that peasant searchers found Baroness Irma Molnar, strangled by a heavy silken cord. Tied to one of the tassels was a crisp card, on which was written in what some thought feminine script...