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...that Germany is rearming!" He estimated that within a year the military air force of the Fatherland-which is forbidden to have any such air force by the Treaty of Versailles-would equal Britain's. ''Ten days of intensive bombing of London would kill or maim 30,000 or 40,000 people, and in a short time 3,000,000 or 4.,00,000 would be driven into the country. . . . Under the German Government organization all that is needed is the decision of a handful of men to launch an attack without notice. It is a danger...
Divorced. "Prince" Serge Mdivani, sleekest of Russia's "Marrying Mdivanis," divorced husband of Cinemactress Pola Negri; by Mary McCormic, operasinger; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty (he threatened to "maim and disfigure" her, called her "terrible names," locked her in the bathroom, paid no bills). Two days later Singer McCormic heard that a hotel hostess named Grace null was in a Los Angeles newspaper office hawking details of the property settlement. Raging, she sped thither, slapped the informant soundly. Prince Serge defended Miss Williams: "She had a perfect right. . . . I have given her the keeping of all my private papers...
Sample task at Warwick: to prove to the boys that gangsters are no heroes. When Owney Madden, Manhattan thug, beer-&-whiskey runner, and night club operator, recently returned to Sing Sing (probably to escape competitors who want to maim him), Warwick boys wrote him letters which were sympathetic and full of hero worship...
Further complicating the nuptials is Sir Tukoji's notorious reputation as the ruler who sent agents to maim and attempt to kill his chief dancing girl Mumtaz Begum. Because of this deed he was deposed as Maharaja of Indore...
...Gypsy Gorman, Spanish, chorus girl, Who wed for love, of course he had a roll, And tried to swim the social whirl. Jimmy Ralston was the wealthy swain Who wed this, Jewish, chorus dame; For act and act he tries in vain His Mother's wrath to fully maim...