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...signature last week is "equivalent to signature of the original pact." Ambassadors Hotta and von Ribbentrop, having signed this ludicrous concession to a Dictator's vanity, were each rewarded by Vittorio Emanuele III, King and Emperor, with the Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice & Lazarus...
...hold frequent congresses and enjoy an extensive literature either written in their tongue or translated into it. But if not already a "dead" language, Esperanto is at least a static one, for its adherents have refused to change it since 1880 when it was launched by its inventor, Dr. Lazarus Zamenhof of Poland. Says Henry Louis Mencken in The American Language: "The trouble with all the 'universal' languages is that the juices of life are simply not in them. They are the creations of scholars drowning in murky oceans of dead prefixes and suffixes, and so they fail...
...statutes. Coming as it did right after the election, the proposal looked -ike a shrewd attempt to head off Federal regulation along the same lines. When presented to the assembled retailers for approval, it raised a terrific ruckus. "We don't want a repetition of NRA," stormed Fred Lazarus Jr. of Columbus, Ohio...
...this work marked both the end of the Byzantine influence which the Crusaders had brought back from Palestine and the beginning of an authentic Christian art in the West. Most of the altarpiece is still in Siena, but two superb little panels showing a 14th Century Italian Christ resurrecting Lazarus and meeting the Samaritan woman fell into the hands of John D. Rockefeller Jr., who let Cleveland exhibit them last week. Said Director Milliken, "The Duccios are the prize catch of the show. I just can't believe they're here...
...suit against the American League Baseball Club because a ball batted by George Herman ("Babe") Ruth hit him at Yankee Stadium in 1934. To the defense that some might consider it an honor to be hit by the world's homerun king, Justice Lester Lazarus sniffed : "No doubt, but the plaintiff could not appreciate the honor, as he was knocked un conscious...