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...Charge d'Affaires] O'Shaughnessy and together we bluffed our way into Chapultepec Castle. We went to the second floor and there was old Huerta drunk in bed. I became so intimate that I sat on the edge of the bed and emerged with an order to inspect all the garrisons of the capital. After looking over the 23 garrisons . . . I decided that I had better head for Vera Cruz and the fleet, because, if they learned I was an American Marine officer I would have been shot...
...compete for the Prix de Rome, candidates are expected not only to submit paintings and sketches for exhibition in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, but to present themselves at an afternoon tea. There the judges and trustees (of which Professor Savage is one) of the American Academy in Rome inspect each individual. The judges' choice, traditionally a personable as well as talented young man, receives from the Academy a studio and residence on Rome's Janiculum Hill for three years?an honorarium valued at about $8,000?plus $500 in traveling expenses...
...shopping. At the old dirty-white adobe National Penitentiary Lieut.-Commander Hugo F. A. Baske, U. S. naval doctor, and Quartermaster's Clerk James F. Dickey paused to exchange a word with the acting warden, Lieut. James L. Denham of the U. S. Marines. They stepped inside to inspect the ancient odorous cells...
Training camps give pitchers a chance to get the kinks out of their arms, managers a chance to inspect new players, famous players a chance to demand larger salaries, the sporting public a chance to get worked up again about baseball. By mid-April, all of this has been accomplished and the big-league season begins. Experts can guess which are the best teams -this year, the Brooklyn Robins or St. Louis Cardinals in the National League, the Philadelphia Athletics in the American...
...with its right wing fluttering after it. It buried its nose deep into the stony soil of flint hills. Only the twisted steel and fabric-or what was left of it by souvenir-hunters-could give further testimony. Designer Anthony Hermann Gerhard Fokker flew from Los Angeles to inspect the wreckage for himself. Fiercely proud of his creation, he was certain there was no structural failure. "The flight should not have been undertaken in existing weather conditions," he said. "I would say the human element entered very strongly into the cause of the crash." It was drizzling when the plane...