Word: exits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proud dancing girl, a blonde, called "Baroness" Francisco von Janko, who later explained: "The King has forbidden me to talk about our friendship. But I can say he has been extraordinarily kind to me. He is wonderful, and a great cavalier. . . ." As they reached the theatre's main exit two lurking Albanian youths popped nine pistol shots at the King. They killed King Zog's adjutant Mayor Lash Topolai and dangerously wounded his court chamberlain Ekrem Libohova. King & "Baroness" were unharmed, having dodged back into the opera house...
Immediate cause of the grand exit march was a debate on the reform of parliamentary rules which Deputies of the Centre parties, left with the business of trying to run a government, have been urging for months. Urgently needed was some check on filibustering, obstructionist tactics which both Fascists and Communists have been successfully using. Fascists used every tactic to delay passage of the bill, but lost 300 to 160. Stiffly goosestepping from the room the Fascists marched out, their right arms raised in salute, shouting HOCH! HOCH! HOCH!!! They paused long enough to collect their full...
Disregarding the fact that few dying men have strength or inclination to call for music, playing on the sentiment that the ideal exit would be made to the strains of some great composer, The Etude, music magazine whose appeal is usually more pedagogic than popular, last week published answers to a questionnaire sent out to various U. S. heroes asking what music they would choose to have played if they had only a few hours to live. Other choices...
...first thing that occurs to the Vagabond personally, is a gaudy exit from Cambridge with drums a beating and colors flying, shouldering, the while, a pair of skis with a careless insouciance, as if to indicate that the loftiest of the White Mountains was but a mere trifle in the life of this hardy Alpinist. But the Vagabond may not go so far afield, and in the latter case a tremendous decision will confront him. Will he go to the Tremont Temple to have his soul saved by Billy Sunday, or to the Tremont Theatre and laugh with...
...fire because warning was not spread quickly enough. At first pleasant odors were used but were not successful. Workmen did not run when they .sniffed violets or roses. But when experimenters released butyl mercaptan which smells like garlic, miners dropped their tools at once, raced for the exit. The stench safety method has been adopted by the American Standards Association which suggests to mine operators how best to conserve their employes' lives. Although the U.S. Bureau of Mines cannot force operators to obey American Standards, most important operators follow their recommendations. Most up-to-date mines in Montana, Arizona, California...