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...gold, lacquer and mother-of-pearl teakwood Dragon Throne on which Manchu emperors had sat from the 17th Century to the close of their reign. In great secrecy the pagoda and throne, (together valued at $3,000,000) were spirited out of China by coolie cart, mule train, river junk and railroad, across Siberia and thence to The Netherlands, where they were stored in the Amsterdam Municipal Museum. Thence, recently, Museum Director Fritz Loew-Beer sent them to the U. S. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. wanted the pagoda and throne for an exhibition of Chinese treasures in Manhattan, to raise...
...That's terrible," he bellowed at a girl who was disrobing in front of him. "I want tight-fitting, flesh-colored bathing suits not that junk...
...editions later the Tribune changed its mind, eliminated from its editorial the promise to junk simplified spelling, altered its headline to read...
...White's article smoked out considerable idle curiosity and some idle capital. By last week he had received, by telephone, telegraph and mail from all over the land, 150 inquiries. Some of the inquirers: politicians, butchers, lawyers, realtors, a junk dealer. Most appeared to be merely window-shoppers, but some asked whether they could swap unspecified possessions for a college; one man was prepared to invest...
Pounding south one night last week, the crack Paris-Toulouse night express sped toward sleeping Chateauroux. Outside of town, with braked wheels flaming, the express smashed into two freight cars and curled up in a heap of tortured junk, from which trapped passengers screamed for help until long after dawn...