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That was enough news for a normal week. But President Roosevelt had a far bigger sensation to pull out of his hat before the week was over. Rocking back in his desk chair, his big mole-speckled hands riding the chair arms, pleased at the hot-flash reception of his news, he also let it be known that he would look over Army maneuvers at Ogdensburg, N. Y., and the word went north from the White House that there was to be no salute of guns, no bands, no reviewing of troops for the President. All that he wanted...
...gadflies that made official Washington miserable in World War I was the crackpot inventor, buzzing with mosquitoey ideas for winning the war-schemes for crashproof airplanes, inescapable torpedoes, mole-burrowing bombs...
...Duchess of Windsor is 44 years old, has a large mole on the right side of her chin and jowls that are beginning to sag. Last week, as the royal pair sailed for the Bahamas, Manhattan newspapers reported that the Duchess would stop in the U. S. for a plastic operation on her face. Whether she intended to have her mole clipped, her nose cropped or her face lifted, no one could say. She had reputedly engaged rooms at Manhattan's Wickersham Hospital for the second week in September. Her surgeon was to be Dr. Irving Daniel Shorell...
...peace, with 33 weeks left of his second term. Yet, although he was in his eighth year as President, although he had moved, worked, eaten, laughed, exhorted, prayed in the intensest glare of public scrutiny; although his every facial grimace, the tone of his voice, each mannerism, the dark mole over his left eyebrow, the mole on his right cheek-although all these were public property, intimate to every U. S. citizen, still there was no man in the U. S. who could answer the question: Who is Franklin Roosevelt...
...nosed Blenhelms) at least 12,000 ft. aloft but the picture reveals at (1) a capital ship, the Gneisenau or Scharnhorst, in Jade Bay; at (2) a set of new locks under construction to connect the inner ship basin with the outer harbor proper, formed by a long new mole (between 1 and 2). Locks are needed because, in the spring, tides here rise 11½ ft. A corner of Wilhelmshaven's great shipyards is just visible on the lower right...