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...still when mob or monarch lays...
...might be called a Britain-for-Bryan boom. Boomers included placid Sir Robert Home, onetime British Chancellor of the Exchequer and Rt. Hon. Leopold Stennett Amery, dynamic onetime Colonial Secretary. Electrum? Britain's gold standard tinkerers soon recalled that King Croesus of ancient Lydia was reputedly the first monarch to put the coin of his realm on a gold basis. Before Croesus the Greeks used coins of a gold and silver alloy called electrum. Why not, urged the rememberers of this fact, create an "Electrum Standard?" Instead of pegging silver legally to gold...
...crashing climax of Director Golterman's Aïda came with the triumph of the Egyptian king at the Act II finale. Eight hundred voices (including the Aframerican chorus) filled the wide night air, 100 dancing girls disported before the monarch and on the lawn in front of the mammoth stage were massed Egyptians on real camels† and a troop of the Cleveland mounted Police disguised as Bedouins...
When Danny McGlone, songwriter and radio program expert, got the job of putting on the Monarch Radio hour in Manhattan he was glad & proud. The first program went off as nicely as you please. Later that night his announcer and his star singer were murdered. In the crowded hours that followed, Danny was in at several more deaths, just missed his own more than once; but kept his head, his appointments and his job, plumbed the racket that was causing the trouble, rounded up the crooks and married the girl...
...Pittsburgh, police found Genevieve Monarch Miller in a car with three men, her arm bloody with the letters ED MILLER, carved into the flesh by a penknife. Arrested, forced into a hospital, Mrs. Miller explained that she had allowed her husband to carve her. "I love him," said Genevieve Monarch Miller...