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Blease v. Diplomats. Last week when Senator Coleman Livingston Blease of South Carolina, Grand Patriarch of I. O. O. F. of S. C., Past Great Sachem of the Improved Order of Red Men, etc., etc., heard that 14-year-old Henry A. Howard, son of British Ambassador to the U. S. Sir Esme Howard, had injured a little girl in an automobile accident in Washington, D. C., he interrupted the business of the Senate with the following...
Thence the Amir was obliged to move to the Grand Hotel. Reason: He wished to call upon "The Prisoner of the Vatican," and no caller is received who comes directly from official premises of the Italian State, the hypothetical "jailer" of His Holiness. Amir Amanullah, although a Mohammedan, accepted amid pomp from the Beatissimus Pater, Pius XI, the "Order of the Golden Spur...
Jeritza whose turbulent, golden, hot-blooded loveliness has always been a notable attraction for the truly discerning connoisseur of grand opera, perhaps failed to personify the sudden, mercurial, fate-defeated Carmen. Critics could not forget that she was more Czech than Spanish, that her French was bad, that she was unfaithful to detail, that the "Habanera" should never have been sung from a wheelbarrow nor the "Sequidilla" from the garrison table. They postponed their verdict. But the mass of the audience perceiving these aesthetic errors, clapped and cheered after every act. After the last, they tossed their roses...
...Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.3 71.1 Automobile accidents . . . . . . . . . . . 18.1 16.5 Suicides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.4 12.3 Unspecified respiratory diseases . . 11.4 11.1 Diphtheria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.9 5.1 Meningitis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.8 2.9 Unspecified external causes . . . . . . . 42.2 40.8 -- -- Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167.1 159.8 -- -- Grand Total...
...Woolworth & Co. . . . . $272,747,430 7.5 J. C. Penney Co., Inc. . . . . . 151,954,620 31.3 S. S. Kresge Co. . . . . . . . . . 133,765,777 12.2 S. H. Kress & Co. . . . . . . . . 58,059,929 11.9 W. T. Grant Co. . . . . . . . . . . 43,322,451 20.5 J. J. Newberry & Co. . . . . 15,065,908 50.9 F. & W. Grand Stores...