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Twenty years ago dapper, whiskered Augusto B. Leguia was President of Peru. A band of rebels, irked at his administration, entered the presidential palace by stealth and kidnaped him. Slim-waisted, short-legged, he was no match at all for his captors. Before the alarm could be given he had...
Accepting his election with reciprocal gravity, King Mihai at once ordered the club to organize Shetland pony races this season in which His Majesty's own shaggy-legged favorite, Black Beauty, could be entered.
Standing in the garden of the presidential palace at Lima are U. S. Ambassador Alexander Pollock Moore, widower of famed Lillian Russell; short-legged President Augusto Leguia of Peru; bland Ambassador Emiliano Figueroa-Larrain of Chile.
For the benefit of Conservatives too shy to sing "Stanley Boy," too lethargic to attend party rallies, a new poster has appeared on British hoardings. It shows a lilliputian David Lloyd George and a bandy-legged Ramsay MacDonald violently speechifying near the easy chair of an apathetic young Conservative.
The Little Show. Like an animated issue of such smart charts as Vanity Fair and The New Yorker is this revue, gathered by clever Manhattanites from the fancies, satires, slap-sticks of their native city. Merry, squint-eyed Fred Allen, whose voice sounds as though it ran over a ratchet...