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...businessman waved away Wilhelm's ultimatum as "pure bluff." At 23 Wall Street Mr. Morgan & friends emerged from meeting after three hours, confident there would be no World War. They announced the New York Exchange would remain open as long as there were buyers. Then they left dank Manhattan...
...Majesties' coronation, the cruisers fired a 21-gun salute, and George issued the welcome order to "splice the main brace" (extra grog for all hands). Three hundred and fifty miles off Cape Race, 1,350 miles from Quebec, the Empress' experienced crew got a whiff of the dank, penetrating "smell of icebergs." Soon the bergs showed up, scant hundreds of yards off the Empress' bows. A cold fog settled down over the liner. The escort cruisers anxiously nosed ahead, and on the Empress the siren sounded mournful blasts at intervals as it slowed to a halt. Thenceforth...
...like summer lightning from afar, the film has caught that quality in the story that surpasses time or place. Tragedy, stark as the Yorkshire moors that are its scene, is the theme of "Wuthering Heights"; and not a punch has been pulled in Goldwyn's cinema version of this dank offshoot of nineteenth-century Romanticism. Especially convincing in the early scenes, Merle Oberon and Lawrence Olivier run the full course of Cathy's and Heathcliff's passion. Mr. Olivier is particularly good as the gypsy lover, catching all of that character's mysterious and dangerous attraction. Maturest entertainment to come...
Jealousy among the various Arab delegates-from Palestine, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Trans-Jordan, Yemen-broke out next. It was learned that Palestinian Defense Leader Ragheb Bey Nashashibi had "caught cold"-not from dank British weather but from heat put on him by representatives of surrounding States...
Sometimes these various relics, like the prisoners of the Bastille, are thrown into the dank den and then left to rot forgotten. In one musty corner, investigators discerned what seemed to be the tattered remnsuts of old Blondie, the maiden aunt of the hippopotamus in the Union...