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...many a bloodthirsty threat. Aside from cramped quarters, boredom, vermin, bad food, the hardest thing they had to endure was hair-pulling, nose-and- ear-tweaking. The bandits delighted in calling them names. When asked what was the English for an obscene Chinese epithet, Author Johnson replied: "Parlez vous français?" "They were delighted and they spend their time saying Parlez vous français to us. Sometimes when they are very annoyed, they say it to one another...
...West Coast to work for peace. Mr. Grady returned to Washington to declare : "We have a revolution on our hands." The longshoremen's strike hit early in May. Maritime workers joined them in sympathy. At San Pedro orange ship ments rotted in the docks. At San Fran cisco $40,000,000 worth of cargo stood unmoved in the dockyards while in the bay 61 loaded freighters lay idle and deserted. Ship owners were losing more than $100,000 a day. At Portland the docks creaked with unloaded steel, meat, fruit and vegetables. A Japanese silk ship waited ten days...
Engaged. Princess Marie-Antoinette Michelle Raphaelle Gabrielle Adélaide Françoise Xavière Josèphe Expédite Grégoire de Braganza, 31, daughter of the late Duke Miguel de Braganza, pretender to the throne of Portugal; and Ashley Chanler, son of the late William Astor Chanler...
During a law suit in Wilmington, Del. Mme Yvonne Alexandrine Cotnareani, divorced wife of Perfumer Francois Coty (real name: François Spoturno), revealed that he had settled half his fortune on her before their divorce in 1929. Amount settled...
Back in Zenith he tells his married daughter that Fran ran the house better than she. He returns to Europe to find his wife slipping from the arms of a sleek diplomat into those of an Austrian blue-blood whom, in a flare of temper, she determines to marry. Wandering around Italy waiting for his divorce, Sam finds a woman with whom he is happy (Mrs. Walter Huston). Fran's romance crashes and she calls him back, but Sam gets off the boat in time...