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Spring was beginning to brighten over the hills of Nazareth, in Galilee. Mary watched the dandelions, listened to the birds, dreamed of the bridalhood soon to crown her betrothal to the boy Joseph. But one night a voice clove through her dreams like a sword edged with moonlight : "Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women...
...relishing his third term as President of Peru. Twenty years ago Señor Leguia was called "The Bantam Roosevelt of Peru." Since "T. R." is now dead and "Il Duce" has risen, President Leguia is sometimes called, "The Bantam Mussolini of Peru"-except by admirers who hail him as greater than either of his nickname-sakes...
Anyone who believes in the Divine Right of Kings-and surprisingly many Hungarians still do-knows that it is now Count Bethlen's pious duty to hail Archduke Otto as the Apostolic King of Hungary. But last week the Count-Dictator merely said: "For the thirty-sixth time I answer this question by declaring that when a King again sits upon the Throne of Hungary it will be solely by the action and consent of Parliament...
...complimentary speech to Signer Giuriati into an inoffensive but significant hint. Italy and France might differ, he said, in their political concepts and in the objects of their foreign policy; but surely they ought to unite in more and more projects of commercial benefit, such as this railway. "I hail these strong bands of steel," cried André Tardieu in emotional peroration, "as a new and active element in the organization of peace...
...Smith; to call the Democrats "a party of abandoned issues" (including the League of Nations, which Mr. Hughes himself abandoned), to jibe at the Democrats' declarations on the Tariff, to imply that the Smith farm program was "political quackery," to call the Prohibition issue a "sham battle." to hail Prosperity...