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...back this airy promise with something solid for jobless men to chew on, Don Carlos ordered a half-million free meals served daily by the Government to Chile's unemployed. State pawnshops obeyed an order to return gratis sewing machines and all tools pawned by the "certified unemployed." Joyous crowds soon flocked around every pawnshop, roared "Viva Davila...
...York Harbor, dodging ferryboats and lying at the edge of Bedloe's Island, barking mischievously at the Statue of Liberty. Few residents of Long Island and Connecticut have ever seen a wild seal, but there are men who welcome a mild winter as an opportunity for the joyous, carefree sport of Sound sealing...
Paris had been extremely nervous lest Adolf Hitler win the German election and repudiate the Treaty of Versailles. Massed in the Place de l'Opera, a tense French throng awaited bulletins. Suddenly, when the flash came that Herr Hitler had definitely not been elected, a joyous French cheer went up "Vive Hindenburg! Vive la France...
...Kashmir at the foot of the Himalayas, the Moslem population celebrated the end of Ramadan by staging a joyous Hindu hunt. Seventy-five houses were pillaged and burned. Crowds rioted up and down the bed of the Jhelum River and through the streets of Dharmsi. Fifteen Hindus were killed, eight Moslems.* Moslems are fiercely proud that in the whole world there are 209,020,000 Moslems compared to 206,900,000 Protestants. Moslems agree with Protestants that God created the world in six days, created a garden of paradise and placed therein the man whom God called "Adam...
...kimono. Baron Imazono stood in the Phoenix Hall and chanted not once but five times in succession the Imperial contributions. From the Emperor: From my own dreams to the weal of my people, thou, Chanticleer, Turnest my thoughts at thy call of the dawn. From the Empress: Send thy joyous clarion call, O Chanticleer, even to the dawning sky, Where fast retiring, yet lingering, the moon to earth draws near. From the Dowager Empress: Let the weary travelers of night take heart again At early dawn when suddenly comes Chanticleer...