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...armed with a long pole, a tin can partly filled with pebbles, a promise of six hours work each night at 40? per hr. "If there's anything the starlings hate," gloated Superintendent Lanham, "it's the rumpus and clatter of the cans. They'll flee for dear life." Setting up a frightful din, the workers rattled and poked. As predicted, the starlings fled-to the eaves and cornices of nearby buildings, where they resumed their own annoying chatter. Superintendent Lanham was not baffled. First windless night he planned to send out a squad of men armed...
...boasts the services of debonair William Gaxton and wistful Victor Moore, respectively President Wintergreen and Vice President Throttlebottom of Of Thee I Sing. Funny as Victor Moore was as Throttlebottom, he is funnier still as "Moonface" Mooney, Public Enemy No. 13. Disguised as a parson, he is forced to flee the country on an ocean liner, soon attaches himself to Billy Crocker (Gaxton), a playboy following a long-lost sweetheart, and Reno Sweeney (Merman), an evangelist turned night club operator...
With the jeers of Oviedo ringing in his ears, Lord Listowel accepted with alacrity this invitation to flee. In the Major's high-powered car, escorted by soldiers, the Commission dashed to Santander, just missed a boat for England, dashed on and were put safely across the frontier into France. On the train to Paris they were offered copies of a French journalist's report on Spain's atrocities appearing in the weekly Je Suis Partout. This charged that Spanish nuns were raped indiscriminately in Asturias, that some 30 priests were butchered or "roasted alive slowly," that...
...affairs. However, he knew two very good outsiders who were in Kansas City at the moment - Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd and Adam Richetti. Next morning it was Miller, Floyd and Richetti who manned the guns outside the station. Twenty-four hours later Lazia's men helped the trio flee town. Before the police released this much of LaCapra's story they had rounded up nine of Nash's friends for obstructing justice. But of the actual killers they had none. Miller was dead and as usual, Floyd, with Richetti, was at large. Born 30 years...
...Archconspirator Gachinovich had been obliged to flee to Switzerland, but Bosnian rebels went to confer with him and at these conferences the details of Franz Ferdinand's assassination were worked out. Student Princip, the actual assassin, was designated by Vladimir Gachinovich as his trustiest and most intimate friend. Too intellectual to risk being present when the shots that started the War were fired, Vladimir Gachinovich also did not feel called upon to enlist or fight, stayed on quietly at Lausanne where he peacefully died...