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Last week, an expected baby again appeared as a news item. The despatch, sent by the Associated Press wire, was dated from Chicago. Who in Chicago was important enough to have an impending descendant talked about in print? A McCormick? A Swift? A Wrigley? An Insull? Whatever may have been their anticipations, none of these were named last week as prospective parents. Perhaps then a politician or a gangster was expecting: was Big Bill Thompson about to be a parent? Scar-Face Al Capone, had he a blushing hope ? Or was it Len Small who was soon to gain...
...world, last week left Manhattan on a boat bound for Italy. Ship news reporters watched her sail away, and whatever they may have observed, reported nothing. Three days later, when Mme. Raisa was far away and out of hearing, the A. P. sent out from Chicago its short despatch which contained a compliment usually reserved for royalty. It said...
...despatch did not reveal the fact that Rosa Raisa would return to America in time to insure her child a U. S. birthplace...
...matter of personal taste and sympathy Cardinal Dubois is known to have a penchant for the Royalists, among whom he has numerous close friends. As Cardinal and Archbishop, however, his duty was clear, last week, and he obeyed the Pope's orders to excommunicate with promptness and despatch...
...remote and ultima Thulish is Mongolia, the land which partially bounds China on the north, that last week the following delayed courier despatch loomed in the North China Herald as hot news...