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...Poincare. When he sat down virtually all correspondents cabled that the union of his Cabinet for election purposes is now monolithic. Was this news? Characteristically, the U. S. press played down or omitted a story of quiet, constructive achievement, so lacking in the ever welcome promise that one more luckless European premier is about to fall...
Read out were promotions, demotions. Executed as a salutary reminder of Chang's might was the luckless General Chen Shu-chiang. He had functioned, recently as Chief of Chang's military police, at Peking and was despatched for the (in China) comparatively trifling crime of "blackmailing wealthy citizens...
...grow on his land this year. His 1926 production had been 300 bales. "Dixie" may still be the "land of cotton," but that portion of "Dixie" hit by the Mississippi flood has become the land of the cotton-less. The people of the flood area in Louisiana are as luckless as would be the officeworkers of Manhattan should an earthquake topple the skyscrapers into lower Broadway...
...Count Ilya Tolstoy, the tale of nice and unnice love, betrayal and soul-redemption is spun deftly and irresistibly to its logical close. Suave Rod La Roque is splendidly convincing as the idyllic, villainous and ultimately penitent Prince Dmitri. Dolores Del Rio is no whit less splendid as the luckless Katusha Maslova...
...anglers luckless with the fly this essay has proved a great boon. What if it did ruin the author's reputation as a fisherman? Although "Fishing with a Fly" and "Revisiting a River" contain the same charm, the same dry humor and lucid beautiful prose, they can not surpass this defense of the amateur fisherman. Why, I can not say, for such a paragraph as this lacks nothing...