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A privilege of Greatness is to speak in words which send common folk ascurrying to dictionaries. Lustrum is such a word. Last week His Excellency General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, Marquis de Estella, Prime Minister and Dictator of Spain announced:
The Duke of Almodovar and Count Cimera each addressed furious open letters, last week, to General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, Marquis de Estella, Prime Minister and Dictator of Spain.
Charles Spencer Chaplin, funnyman, picked up a garden hose, squirted it. He was serious. He was helping to fight a fire at the American-Russian Eagle Club in Hollywood, Calif. His efforts were stopped when an explosion of leaking gas wrecked the building and injured eight people. Among those present...
Such serious scientists as Raymond Lee Ditmars, famed curator of reptiles at the N. Y. Zoological Park, and Miss Nellie Louise Condon, president of the Reptile Study League agreed with Dr. do Amaral. Salty sportsmen and story-tellers (Don Marquis, Owen P. White, Tex Rickard, Texas Guinan, Tex O'...
Two decrees of major import were issued, last week, under the imperious aegis of paunchy, florid Dictator Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, Marquis de Estella. The first almost quadruples Spain's usual appropriation for naval construction and brings the sum available for this purpose in 1928 up to 600...