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...served him hearty Schnitzels and Muskatellers, gave him little pin wheels and ocarinas and beer mugs, entertained him with folk tales and Tarock-pleasures the stiff castle denied him. The severe Empress Elizabeth, who, as she bluntly put it, "was sick and tired of being brood mare to His Majesty," openly encouraged the relationship. Soon all Vienna knew of it, and approved. On the Emperor's birthday, little children would come with flowers to watch the pre-dawn passage of der alte Kaiser from his secret gate to that of "Käthi, the uncrowned Empress...
Died. Anna, 39, talented Metropolitan Opera House mare; of old age; in Rockleigh, N. J. Onetime mount of Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik, for 25 years she shared honors with Caruso and Martinelli in Aida...
...fall day in 1892, a raw 22-year-old named Blanford Barnard Dougherty came down out of the mountains of western North Carolina to the little town of Lenoir. Ahorse and by shanks' mare, he had traveled all the stormy night from Boone, 25 miles away. He was going to college at Wake Forest, N. C. At Lenoir, young Dougherty cloppered on to a train, the first he ever did see. Finding the second-class car full, he made himself comfortable in first class. When the conductor tried to put him back in second class, the sharp-witted hillbilly...
JAMES STILL Dead Mare Branch...
Last week Robert Jackson, ordering dismissal of the indictments, pointedly blamed Frank Murphy for hunting mare's-nests. Said Attorney General Jackson, recalling that the recruiting occurred in 1937 and 1938, was investigated by the FBI last March: "No action was taken until December 1939 when the U. S. Attorney at Detroit was ordered by Attorney General Murphy to conduct a grand jury proceeding. . . . Even-handed and impartial justice would not localize prosecutions of this character to Detroit. ... I can see no good to come from reviving in America at this late date the animosities of the Spanish conflict...