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...jeweler expressed his belief that when Hermine and Wilhelm were married (1920), she was secretly crowned Kaiserin of Germany, by which title she is said to be addressed at Doom. The detectives, having pondered well this tale, reflected that it brought them no nearer to recovering the crown, which was originally seized by the provisional government after the Kaiser's flight from Germany...
...Half Caste is one of those seethingly tropical things which sound suspiciously as if the author had never been nearer Pago-Pago than a ukelele store. It tells of a fine young U.S. yachtsman who falls in love with one of the island damsels. Later she turns out to be his half sister. A dancer* named Veronica has the leading role...
...Winthrop's recovery are eradicated, it is expected that he will return to the stroke seat. This will mean that there will be four strokes for three crews, and there is a likelihood of one of them being moved from the pace-setter's place to a position nearer the bow of the boat...
Sleeper. As Sir Austen Chamberlain rumbled toward the Gare du Nord, Paris, on his way to Geneva, a man was observed asleep in a motor car parked near the Nord station. A tired smile faintly curved his lips as he slept and a cigaret burned ever nearer his finger tips...
...rather impossible; the divisionals very near at hand; the tutorial reading twice as inglorious as the poorest want ad--and woe is truly upon every ice cake and puddle of existence. But cynicism usually prefaces belief. And the sun really is getting farther and farther from Palm Beach and nearer and nearer the waste lands of Cambridge. Dog days are almost over...