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...night filed sadly through Westminster Hall. It was so cold that middle-aged "Beefeaters" from the Tower and Gentlemen of the King's Guard wore their heaviest cloaks, but the four officers rigid at the corners of the bier stood in their uniforms only, chilled to the marrow. The great throng's moment of deepest emotion came when it was known that Queen Mary and Edward VIII, unannounced, had quietly entered by a side door. Down the mile-long line passed the simple affecting words, "The King and Queen are with...
...world war in a few weeks or months but of an immediate, an almost instantaneous Italo-British war. Elsewhere in his speech "Flying Sam," personally a sportsman of courage, denied that Great Britain is afraid, but he won not a few votes for Squire Baldwin by chilling the marrow of the King-Emperor's subjects thus...
...Japan the Son of Heaven, last of 124 rulers in unbroken descent from the Son Goddess Amaterasu-O-Mi-Kami, is never cartooned. The very notion freezes pious Japanese to the marrow and members of the Cabinet last week wailed: "This is terrible! Terrible!" Tension was heightened because His Majesty had been cartooned in the lowly and menial attitude of a huckster drawing through the streets a cart on which lay a rolled-up paper supposed to be the Nobel Peace Prize. What Vanity Fair's cartoonist might be getting at was obscure to Japanese, but he had dared...
...Certain other organs-brain, thymus, bone marrow, dried gastric mucosa. dried lymph nodes-exert an inhibiting action on tar cancer development...
...stepped on the Express du Nord in Paris: that Dictator Pilsudski was fast dying of cancer (see p. 21). When the train stopped for 20 minutes in Berlin, he expected what he got, scant attention from anybody except the French Ambassador. But he was chilled to the marrow, when the train pulled up on a well-guarded siding in Warsaw, by the strange stiffness of the top-hatted Poles. Foreign Minister Josef Beck explained that Pilsudski had a little hangover of influenza, proceeded to do the honors with a cold and abstracted air. Into this atmosphere Laval launched his strategic...