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Grimly ex-King Alfonso studied the specialists' reports. They confirmed what everyone has assumed. Daughters Beatriz and Maria Christina are like their mother. They are "carriers" of the dread blood disease haemophilia. When he had read the reports, Alfonso XIII as Head of the House of Bourbon issued this edict: Neither of his daughters may ever marry. Amid tremendous sensation the engagement of the Infanta Beatriz was broken last week. With her own hands she had made most of her wedding gown, was to have been married with semi-royal pomp at Fontainebleau...
Cannibals devour them; lions and tigers pounce upon them, claw and maul them to bits. They elbow their way through dense jungles, visiting and converting little pygmies and big black bucks. They fall ill of dread and curious diseases. From home they receive boxes of worn-out dresses, aprons, old hats, old pants for the natives. Chieftains salute them; witch-doctors harry them. Thus, traditionally, missionaries...
...occupying Manchuria last week. Japan's trained reserve, citizens well drilled and ready to spring to the colors, topped 1,750,000. On the sea Japan has an incomparably superior navy of 798.394 tons. The entire Chinese Navy (68 ships) does not displace as much as one British super-dread-naught (40,000 tons). Japanese opinion of Chinese fighting strength was expressed by a Government spokesman at Tokyo: "if China declares war on Japan, we will simply ignore...
...vino veritas" moments of the drinking scene, it is not entirely the actor's fault. Where Miss Crothers' pen strays from the high road of comedy into her beloved bypaths of sentimentality the play is decidedly less interesting and certainly less well acted. At several points there is the dread possibility that sentimentality may prevail, but by a miracle the demon is kept just at arm's length. Perhaps Emmie's accent works the trick...
...with the dead nephew's money, makes a tidy fortune. He can get his scrawny, pitiful wife new clothes. He can school his daughter in Paris. He can buy garish new furniture for his wretched flat. But he can never leave the place. He is shackled to the dread secret that lies buried in the back yard. His money begins to work him ill, embroils in him an unhappy affair with a blackmailing his daughter with a man, sickens his wife. His wife has long guessed and forgiven his crime, but when she finds he has been unfaithful...