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...Usually a shark will vanish at sight of its mortal enemy with the sharp-bladed nose, but this shark "about 25 feet long," was intent on stealing a big bluefish that the men were pulling in. Shooting out of the blue deep came the swordfish. The shark turned to flee but it was too late. For 35 minutes the sea was lashed into bloody froth. Then all was calm and the shark, his long white belly gashed to ribbons, floated dead on the surface, drifted away to make a meal for his own kind...
Last week Nanking Theological Seminary was as excited as it had not been since the city was bombarded in 1927 and President Harry F. Rowe was forced to flee in trousers and shirt. According to press despatches, Nanking Seminary was to receive not merely wealth, but riches incredible. The news said $13,000,000. That would be more than the endowments of all missionary universities and schools in China put together.* In buying power it would equal $50,000,000 in the U. S. As if Princeton Theological Seminary were to get a billion...
...year. It contains a great deal of savagery, with a love story for sweetening. Trader Horn (oldtime Wild West Cinemactor Harry Carey) and his friend Little Peru find a white native goddess (Edwina Booth), daughter of a deceased missionary. She saves them from being roasted upside down. They flee. Eventually Mr. Carey prudently wraps a blanket around naively nude Miss Booth, sends her on to civilization with Peru, then heads off again into the wilderness...
Czechoslovak papers scare-headed that "King Alfonso will soon flee to his cousin's castle in the Slovak Alps...
...term was over, but he was convicted on a State charge sentenced for seven to nine years. In the interim he was released on bond and hurried to Florida where he tried a lame scheme. He got in trouble with Florida's courts, attempted to flee the U. S., was caught in New Orleans, returned to Massachusetts. In October 1931, he will be eligible for parole, is not preparing to fight. In Boston Federal Prison, he was popular because of his ability to write amusing verses about other prisoners and the jailers...