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...great, wooden-floored warehouse is neatly piled with bunches of tobacco leaves. Buyers inspect them, fingering them, and measuring them with their eyes. The auctioneer, at one end of the room, starts to chant. Coat off, hat on the back of his head, hands on his hips, he sways to the rhythmic rise and fall of his cry. "Hobben-dobben-hobben-dobben-hobben-dobben," is the way it sounds if you have never heard it, "Hobben-dobben, ay-ay-ay-ay -ay -ni -ni -ni -ni-ni-ten-ten-ten-ten-SOLD." By crooks of fingers, nods of heads, distention...
...filled with anonymous letters threatening the most painful forms of mayhem to any who should impose sentence on a boycotter. Department stores were picketed, Japanese shops were bombed. In Nanking the Legislative Council repudiated the Sino-Japanese treaty of May 5. Anti-Japanese boycotters announced frankly that they would inspect all shipments of goods at the rail terminals and confiscate all Japanese goods...
Plump Queen Wilhelmina beamed, so did the plump Prince Consort. Comfortable Princess Juliana went out to inspect the new villages near Wieringen and thousands of Dutch trippers on hundreds of excursion boats yelled themselves hoarse. But at Volendam and Marken, those overexploited bits of quaintness, fishing boats were tied in glum rows to the quays, their painted sideboards hauled out of the water, their flags at half-mast. Fisher folk clumped gloomily over the cobblestones in wooden shoes...
...King Victor Emmanuel and large Queen Elena of Italy, swathed in pearls. Other gondolas, other barges followed, carrying Princess Maria of Italy, Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark and other notables. The whole procession debarked at Venice's public gardens to open the 18th Biennial International Art Exhibition and inspect the U. S. building where Ambassador & Mrs. John Work Garrett were waiting to receive...
...called his car. By nightfall he had a promise from the Ministry of Agriculture that the apples would be admitted as soon as passed by sanitary inspectors. That was not the limit of his victory. In future, only apples packed in barrels need be inspected. De Luxe Winesaps from Oregon, tissue-wrapped and in boxes, may enter France without question. Grateful importers offered to build a $40,000 apple shed on the Havre docks where blue-capped douaniers could inspect apples in comfort...