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...romantic adventure, much to the discomfort of both ex-lovers, much to the bewilderment of the husband, Heller (Robert Loraine). By the time Husband Heller learns which man has really loved his wife it is too late for the knowledge to do him any good or hapless Cremone any more harm...
...confused scene around Shanghai last week by Associated Press. . . . Correspondent Peggy Hull of the Chicago Tribune found a German officer commanding well-drilled Chinese fighters. . . . Correspondent Victor Keen of the New York Herald Tribune drove to Japanese headquarters near Woosung in time to see a hapless Chinese condemned to death because his captors found money in his pocket ("evidence" that he was paid to kill Japanese...
Immediate cause was the hapless fate of U. S. Lines. This consists of the following ships: Leviathan, George Washington, President Roosevelt, President Harding, America, Banker, Farmer, Merchant, Shipper, Trader, Importer, Exporter-also two fine vessels abuilding in Camden, N. J. As everyone knows this fleet was spectacularly purchased from the Government in the boom of 1929 by Banker Paul Wadsworth Chapman who proceeded to sell stock to the public on patriotic grounds. But in days when no Atlantic fleet makes any money to speak of, and with Britain's greatest Royal Mail losing millions, the prospects for an American...
Unlike Oscar Wilde's greedy councillors, citizens of Vienna grieved one chilly day last week for dead and dying swallows. If the swallows were too weak to fly over the snowy Alps, Vienna would help them. Children and adults collected hapless birds, assembled them in wooden crates. Airplanes carried the crated swallows, thousands of them, to warm Venice, where they were fed and freed...
...necessity of diligence in tracing rat droppings to rat nests between beams, in pipe coverings, under floors, over ceilings. Into every hole into which a rat may squeeze, deadly gas must be sprayed. After fumigation the ship must be aerated, dead rats searched out. Sometimes the search reveals a hapless stowaway...