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...Leipzig steaming into the harbor of the Free City of Danzig. Going ashore, the Leipzig's captain committed a flagrant diplomatic breach by paying courtesy calls upon all Danzig officials except the highest, His Excellency Sean Lester, League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig. To point up this insult young Albert Forster, supple-muscled leader of the Danzig Nazi Party, declared next day in his Nazi news-organ that the adjective which best describes both the League of Nations and its High Commissioner is "superfluous...
Nearly hidden beneath last week's shootings was the deeper issue of an Arab family feud. Between the great Arab families, the Husseini and Nashashibi, bitter rivals for leadership in Palestine, the last insult fell last year when a Hussein beat out Ragheb Bey Nashashibi for the mayoralty of Jerusalem which he had held for 14 years. The Hussein had had the votes of Jerusalem Jews. The enraged Nashashibi plotted a great Arab revolt against Jewish immigration to win Arab leadership from the head of Husseini, Haj Amin el Husseini, president of the Moslem Supreme Council and, as Grand...
...Sulu could not be chosen except by unanimous vote. Therefore they must wait until every datu from the farthest Moro island had arrived. The followers of Rajamuda called her by the names of she-animals. They declared she planned to make herself Sultana or-almost as unforgivable an insult to a warrior race-get the job for her husband, Datu Umbra, or her father-in-law. Datu Amil-bangsa. The princes grumbled, but the proclamation of Rajamuda's accession was withheld and the throne continued last week to tremble in the balance...
...Turk. Thank goodness! I am ignorant of the source where newshounds acquired that erroneous and misleading fact of bald-headed Ekizian's being a Turk. I am certain that Ekizian, himself an Armenian, would not have informed sport scribes that he was a Turk-an insult to any true Armenian! Majoring in journalism at school, I am quite aware of the fact that some reporters resort to "sensationalism" to ask for a raise the next morning; or perhaps they are alliteration fiends unable to find one for "Armenian," use "Terrible Turk" and "Krushing Kurd." Let him be known hereafter...
...Several Mayo Clinic patients lived from 15 to 17 years after their heart attack. "A larger group lived from seven to twelve years." A few survived as many as four heart attacks, proving that "the heart is often capable of making a remarkable recovery from probably the most terrific insult to which it is exposed and even from repetition of such insults...