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Although no aircraft has yet flown from Berlin to Manhattan, German toy makers released last week for the Christmas trade a mimic airplane painted in bright letters BERLIN-NEW YORK...
...outward voyage the Duchess and her two ladies-in-waiting disported themselves nightly with the Duke and members of his suite by dancing the authentic Charleston. As a result, continued the despatch, numerous British tars on H. M. S. Renown observed closely the royal example, learned to mimic a dance with which they were previously unfamiliar, and are now to be seen teaching Australian ladies of the evening "The Royal Charleston...
Vexed. At Coburg, where the Grand Duke Cyril (TiME, Dec. 10, 1923) has openly proclaimed himself "Tsar of all the Russias" and reigns over a mimic court, both the action of the emigres in disregarding Cyril's claims and the reply of the Grand Duke Nikolai, likewise ignoring him, touched off sulphurous words of scorn...
...settler days, laying special emphasis on downright iniquitous conduct that is calculated to cover the adipose priests of respectability with shame for their own vegetating passions. The books are part of a current crusade against standardization and the civic inferiority complex that leads Kansas to ape California, Montana to mimic Minnesota, in their timorous search for "the right thing...
Christian Buddenbrook. The brother of Thomas. At the age of seven a skillful mimic of Marcellus Stengel, his schoolmaster, he is pronounced "witty and brilliant" by Jean Jacques Hoffstede, the poet. He continues a skillful mimic to the end. But beyond that he accomplishes nothing?except to spend Buddenbrook money and to irritate the steadier Thomas...