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...compulsory attendance has rendered even this feeble encouragement completely obsolete. Whatever may be the attitude next year of the authorities toward revising probation and attendance at classes, it is to be hoped that restrictions of no obvious value around vacation and holiday times will be relegated to the scrap-heap...
Slumped in a heap lay Lee Flacy, deputy sheriff, pumped full of buckshot. To his bride of a fortnight went news of her widowhood by radio: "A shooting at 5824 Swope Parkway-Lee Flacy killed...
...Empress Zita, now a dour-faced widow, was in Paris at the bedside of her brother, Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma, desperately ill with an infected heart. The body of Otto's father, the Emperor Karl, lay in a rusty vault on the island of Madeira under a heap of ancient wilted wreaths from European royalty. One thing the Dollfuss Heimvehr Government is most likely to do for the Habsburgs is to allow Karl's body to be brought back to take its place among his ancestors in the Capuchin Church in Vienna, and to repeal...
...longtime New York Times Sunday editor, now a Doubleday, Doran executive at Garden City, where he was isolated: "A man lies unburied two days after the funeral hour because a coffin could not be got to his house. A young woman was dragged unconscious, half frozen, from a snow heap half a mile from her home. Electric wires were dead. . . . Telephone wires were useless. Taxicabs and private automobiles stayed in their garages or stuck in the snow. . . . For the better part of 24 hr. no help could be had, for love or money, in case of fire or serious illness...
...score of the Ruppert's crew scrambled out upon the ice with fire extinguishers, bandages and iodine ready for a bad crash. In less skillful hands than Pilot June's the plane probably would have gouged her skis into the ice, somersaulted into a heap. Coolly he pulled his Condor's nose up almost to the stalling angle, squashed the ship's tail into the snow. The skis bounced up into a near horizontal. In that split second Pilot June set the ship down safely...