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...decided not to attend the League Assembly last week when it met to approve sanctions, sending instead Vladimir Potemkin, Soviet Ambassador to France. In Moscow leading Government newsorgans charged that Britain was attempting to "bribe" not only Germany but also Japan. Since these two countries are Russia's mortal enemies, Soviet statesmen feared that the bribes might be British promises of aid and comfort should they attack...
While five sonnets per day is a full-time job for the ordinary mortal, Dr. Moore is not an ordinary mortal. He swims in the annual 12-mile race from Charleston to Boston Light; he is a practicing psychiatrist with offices on Commonwealth Avenue; and he is an instructor at the Medical School. He also found time to get married and is the father of two boys when he reports have little in common with poetry...
...that was mortal of Huey Pierce Long was buried last week in a copper-lined vault sunk in the front lawn of the State Capitol at Baton Rouge. From the 33-floor tower of the Capitol which the murdered Dictator had built as a $5,000,000 monument to himself and which now served as his headstone, reporters saw that the vast funeral crowd had choked the roads for miles around. Below, ringed by 100,000 spectators, of whom some 200 fainted during the long wait before the services began, lay a great bright field of floral tributes: little bunches...
...merchandise, he had staked Long to his political start in 1918 when Long ran for a place on the Louisiana Railroad Commission. As Governor, Oscar Allen had been utterly subservient to Long, taken his cursings with a smile, contented himself with being what he called "The Little Fish." In mortal fear for his own life, Oscar Allen last week had only one thought: to get his daughter quietly married (see p. 55) and to retire from public life as soon as possible...
Eight natives formed a circle around the man who became a pillar of fire, "repelled him with precautionary blows of the lance . . . so as not to make mortal wounds." widening and contracting the circle, shouting at the top of their lungs, while the flames soared 15 feet high. The only part of the prisoner that did not crumble to ashes was his eyeballs...