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Just after 6:30 a. m. the Japanese sentries saw a motor car flying the U. S. flag and bearing the emblem of U. S. Consul General Myrl S. Myers drive up to the station. Out stepped a slender, well-dressed U. S. citizen. He showed a U. S. diplomatic passport proclaiming him to be Culver Bryant Chamberlain, newly appointed U. S. Consul at Harbin. Because he speaks no Japanese, speaks perfect Chinese, knows that most Japanese know a little Chinese, Consul Chamberlain addressed the Japanese sentry in Chinese, promptly received a blow in the face...
...Democratic party is a joke and its emblem properly a jackass, then the motto selected is appropriate enough. . . . Imagine the great leaders of the great party devising as a fit expression of their principles and their purpose the truly asinine motto, 'Hee! Haw! We're coming back...
...bored by the oratory poured forth at most luncheons of the U. S. colony in Paris. T. N. T. represents the wrath lurking in the breasts of members ready to explode upon any one who stands up to make a "remember Lafayette" or "hands across the sea" speech. Emblem of the order is an obelisk which stands on the club table at luncheon, symbolizing all the wisdom of the world in its hieroglyphics. T. N. T. meets at the Royal Haussman Hotel except Sundays and Thursdays, when the American Club of Paris performs. Membership, 150. Dues: 100 francs annually...
...Carideo and the "Four Horsemen" contribute toward the creation of a genuine athletic atmosphere. It was inevitable that there should be occasional slips into the sentimental, but these were few, and the impression received was an almost literal one of a phase of college life which has for an emblem the brown oblate spheroid...
...audience wore at least a bit of blue. Women in azure dresses and hats wore brooches with the motto: Fear God! Fear Naught! Men wore blue enameled cufflinks with the same motto in their blue cuffs. Outside Albert Hall waited several swank blue motor cars with the radiator emblem Fear God! Fear Naught! The blue blood of the British ruling class was up?this was the charter mass-meeting of Commander Locker-Lampson's blue-shirted "Sentinels of Empire," founded "to peacefully fight Bolshevism and clear out the Reds...