Word: marianno
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...sick man of Europe." Today Europe reports that she has another sick man. His death will be much more in the nature of tragedy for a watching world than was the unheralded demise of the Turkish Empire. This wasted invalid, the League of Nations, at whose bedside the faithful Marianno stands with a melancholy smile and a hypodermic needle, is that child born so auspiciously in 1919 with racking labor pains to Woodrow Wilson, Clemenceau, and Lloyd George, that same child whose bronchial wheezings on the shore of Lake Geneva for the past sixteen years have so worried a hopeful...
...Mawson, the Australian, spotted a few more. Africa- On Jan. 27, 1863 the late David Livingstone took a sheet of blue foolscap* and wrote to "His Excellency the Governor of the Cape" a report on trade and slavery. The old letter was found this Spring. It reads in part: "Marianno was a guest last year at the Governor's [of Quelimane] table after undergoing punishment for some 40 murders and attacking the village of Senna. He then ran away and the Governor ran after him, and, of course, could not catch him. "Another, and yet another, turned slave hunter...
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