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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voodoo orgies. He drank a great deal. Mounting debts kept him out of Britain most of his life. In 1818 he married the sister of Leopold I of Belgium. His greatest service to his country occurred when he became the father of a pale and proper little girl who grew up to be Victoria, Queen of England, Empress of India, Defender of the Faith. Last week King George quickly let the new Duke of Kent understand that he must work for his title. Hardly had the great-great-grandson of the last Duke opened the motor show than...
...days of mutual recrimination. Because the murder weapons were German made. French police tried to blame the Nazis. Jugoslav crowds hurled insults at Italian consulates. Orthodox Serbians pelted Roman Catholic churches with stones, then switched their spleen to Hungary which had given shelter to Ustashi. A dozen chancelleries grew worried. Press attacks suddenly ceased. Jugoslavia, too. was calm. It might be the heavy silence before the hurricane, but for the time being even the angry attacks against Italy ceased. Jugoslavia, like all Europe, was waiting to see if the new Regency could govern that piebald land...
...break their fast. Thereupon hot chocolate and cakes were served them on their thrones. Next day was Columbus Day, celebrated in Latin America as ''The Day of the Race." In honor of the Eucharistic Congress the customary soccer games and races were called off. The morning soon grew hot. At mass, celebrated for half a million people at the great cross by the Bishop of Alicante, Spain, permission was given the men to wear their hats, the clergy their birettas. Since the women had been ordered to wear dark dresses and mantillas, the only relief that could...
...auction was everything Lumberman Long possessed except the sets of Dickens, Eliot and Bulwer-Lytton which lined the walls of the little oak room where he read the Bible every morning and to which was brought his 10 o'clock glass of milk. While Auctioneer William Henry Jones grew hoarse trying to get better prices and Housekeeper Catherine Viles wept salty tears of sadness, bidders and gapers were able to glean from the house's elaborate furnishings how pious Lumberman Long liked to spend his days. At the foot of a marble and bronze stairway...
...outstanding dancers : handsome David Lichine, spectacular for his leaps, his sensuous grace; pretty feathery Tatiana Riabouchinska, whom Colonel de Basil has insured against marriage; dark dynamic Tamara Tamounova and Irina Baronova. The greatest of these, says Critic Haskell, is Baronova, 15, ashy, pale-haired Russian emigrée who grew up in the Balkans, studied in Paris with the Imperial ballerina, Olga Preobrajenska. Baronova's technic is amazing. She can do 32 spins (fouettés) without stopping. But more, her dancing has the same subtle, unearthly quality which marked the early playing of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Author Haskell...