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...Command of the Emperor." Not only last week but at all times the Imperial Palace of the Son of Heaven, standing in great wooded gardens encircled by high stone walls and a deep moat in Tokyo, is cut off from any newsy intercourse with the rest of the world. Into this sanctuary bolted the surviving members of the Japanese Cabinet and every subject of sufficient consequence to rate such proximity to the Son of Heaven...
...befuddlement of Jean over the winning warmth of the ghost, as gallant as ever, and the self-conscious timidity of his living image causes no end of mildly uproarious confusion. But the whole mess is neatly resolved when the castle is moved to Florida, and surrounded by a moat containing Venetian gondolas, to give a European atmosphere...
Britain & France. With the French Parliament reconvening this week. Premier Pierre Laval snatched a four-day holiday on his country estate, a medieval barony with castle, drawbridge and moat which this earthy son of a butcher has bought with the millions of francs he has earned as a lawyer...
When the landscapist was laying out the football field in Princeton's Palmer Stadium in 1914. he decided that the sides of the field should be banked, started grading by digging a deep marginal moat. Belatedly it was pointed out that the proposed embankment would be dangerous to footballers forced out of bounds. Thereupon, the moat was turned into a cinder track whose unusual depth of ballast surprised one & all by providing a remarkably springy surface. Thus an accident accounts for what many a runner considers the world's fastest track, a smooth, black 440-yd. oval...
...Mussolini's cheering troops had to footslog their way into Abyssinia from the blanketing coast of Eritrea, their cheers would not last long after they hit the Danakil. A natural moat, 400 miles long and 150 wide, it roughly parallels the Abyssinian border, sinks to 400 feet below sea level, boasts temperatures as high as 156° in the shade. Before Explorer Nesbitt, no white man had ever succeeded in crossing it, though three expeditions had tried. In Hell-Hole of Creation he tells how he and two Italian companions, with a native caravan, traversed the entire length...