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Calvin Coolidge has his thousands and Al Smith his tens of thousands. That one is an enigmatic Yankee and the other a simple Irishman is far more important to their followers than the issues which they personify. In the not too distant past these men held of flee. They were symbols of the beliefs of two great parties, a fact which now means little to the cheering multitudes it is enough that they were something...
Karl Payer, Socialist Deputy who had helped organize the park mass meeting, suddenly grew frightened at the turn of events, tried to calm the rioters. He had to flee for his life. Like locusts the workmen swept down Andrássy Street, looting shops, smashing windows. The three most expensive restaurants in Budapest, the Edison, the Western, Weingruber's (beloved of plump monocle-eyed Ferenc Molnar) were gutted. Piling chairs, crates, table tops to make street barricades the mob raised the old polysyllabic clarion of Communism, "Long Live the Dictatorship of the Proletariat...
...ruler, made himself King. Then he began the country's conversion to the religion which he himself had not long held. In 1015 Olaf ("The Fat") Haraldsson (995-1030) similarly obtained dominion, made all Norwegians Christians, reigned with cunning and cruelty 14 years. Then discontented nobles forced him to flee, killed him when he tried to return. But after miracles were worked at his tomb, his misdeeds were forgotten. Olaf the Warrior became Norway's patron saint, canonized...
...England the British Home Office issued orders that if Earl Carroll, Broadway producer on trial last week for obscenities in his Vanities, should leave the U. S. for Great Britain, he must not be permitted to land. "Ridiculous!" snorted Brother Norman Carroll at rumors that Producer Carroll might flee the law and the land...
...anxious to get an appointment to Rome than to retain his wife's love. She is immensely attracted to her husband's young attache, who remarks, while sprawling on a divan: "At times I am completely at the mercy of my passions." But when she offers to flee with him to some bourne of quiet, she learns again that worldly ambition can conquer desire. Then she accepts the proposition of the urbane Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs who. presumably, is able to make the sacrifices necessary for love without abandoning his prestige...