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...perfection that the Roche trade-mark guarantees. Herein the plot clots around a Palm Beach super-sheik with four yachts (named for the four winds), a pugilist-butler and a string of seductions that would put Casanova back in the kindergarten. Also present: a wronged War hero, a guileless moth, a seasoned misconductress. Who daggered the super-sheik...
Around England for the King's Cup fly England's airmen every year in big planes, little planes, from a 27-horse-power Moth with 7¾ hours start to an Armstrong-Siddeley-Siskin, starting from scratch. Last week, they took off. On the first day, the sun shone clear at dawn; but, before they had gone half way, a fog climbed up to them from the sea and many a plane, bewildered, sought a landing. A "flying grandstand"- an enormous plane fitted with luxurious chairs, glass panels through which journalists and race officials could see what...
...shops about the square have caught the spirit of the thing. Sales of all kinds tempt the departing student to carry away with him all the odds and ends left over from the year's business. The drug store windows display barrels of delicious looking moth balls. Everything presages the disintegration of the college community. As the line of march to the rotunda begins to form, the Crimson extends to the departing host its heartiest wishes for a pleasant vacation and a safe return to the fold in far-away September...
...selected in 1918 to fulfill the baneful task of handing over the stricken Empire's fleet to the enemy. To men whose whole lives had been spent in the Navy, this meant great shame and dishonor. Most of the high naval officers sadly put their clothes away with moth balls and tried to forget their humiliation. Not so Horthy. Morning, noon and night, breakfast and dinner found him bedecked as an admiral. If he went shooting in the Royal Forest near Gödöllö, his uniform was with him; he took it off when he went...
...moth-eaten natural history book, lately discovered in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library describes the tiger as "a large feline of the zebra complexion which inhabits the swamps of New Jersey. For a short period every we years it migrates northward in great numbers to the flats at Cambridge, Massachusetts, to 'pawn'. After his operation the animal returns to is habitat, greatly reduced, and in a condition relatively "ractable...