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Hastily Maitre Torres interposed for Miss Warner: "Her dance in Paris is a good deal cleaner than those done in Chicago today. There is propaganda in America against tourists coming to France lest they be contaminated. Let's set them right. May I not ask Miss Warner to do her 'Slave Dance' in this Court...
Fearful on the eve of his 96th birthday lest two front teeth would have to be extracted because he bit a cherry pit four years ago, John D. Rockefeller Sr. visited his dentist. Reassured to learn that his 19 teeth were all sound, he quietly celebrated his birthday on his 500-acre estate near Lakewood, N. J. Biggest Rockefeller birthday present was $5,000,000 in cash representing the face value of his insurance policies. The money was returned to him because he had outlived the actuarial tables, which do not go above...
...nearer Panama than Manhattan since the canal rent is pledged to pay U. S. holders of Panama bonds. President Arias has refused to follow Franklin Roosevelt in one respect: he has been a strict budget-balancer and the rent money will help even if it never reaches home. Lest, however, any U. S. citizen profit by his Government's keeping its word, Panama immediately demanded that its U. S. creditors accept 4% instead of the 6-½% interest promised them...
...Godin & Chiappe motored out to the big garden of Mme Cotnareaunu, widow of Perfumer François Coty, on the Avenue Raphael. Old-fashioned dueling pistols were loaded with black powder & ball. On the greensward the seconds stepped off 25 paces. The principals turned up their coat collars lest a spot of white shirtfront give a target...
...death grip on the steering wheel, gritting his teeth, while he raced along at 20 m. p. h. Swanky Mrs. Christmas puzzled Traveler Balfour: in a great hurry to get to India, she planned, as soon as she arrived, to catch a boat for London, worried all the way lest she miss it. Among the good companions Traveler Balfour placed Miss Gumbleton, who loved to sew and who darned socks for the whole company, begging for torn garments like a child after sweets. He was a little uneasy about Mrs. Mock, who seemed preoccupied with symptoms of illness, was amused...