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...rope of police and troops. King and Minister stepped into the fourth automobile and the line moved forward. It happened then almost exactly as it had happened to Franz Ferdinand of Austria on a hot July day in 1914 in Alexander's Serbia. Quick as a squirrel a nondescript youth ducked under the police line, leaped to the running board of the royal car. His pistol was scarcely an arm's length from the King as he began to fire. Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! A sabre crashed on the assassin's head. His next shots went wild...
...This year manufacturers hope to tempt the public into renewed buying of modern furniture, which has toned down considerably since its introduction in 1928. Of the 20,000 pieces on exhibit at the mart, 26% were modern "functional" (extreme) and "classic" (toned down), 30% Early American, 23% commercial and nondescript, 10% Georgian, the rest Louis, Early English, Empire and Biedermeier...
...nondescript structure of rustic thatch pitched amid jungle creepers on the upper reaches of South America's great, turgid Amazon the authority and prestige of the League of Nations have been held higher than anywhere else on earth for exactly one year...
...keeping each other waiting at their public appearances. These stories started when Der Führer left the Grand Hotel ten minutes ahead of schedule for a review of Fascist Militia in the square facing St. Mark's. With no military escort, the smudge-mustached Chancellor in his nondescript business suit was half way across the square before a young woman squealed "Hitler!" Ten minutes later II Duce marched in on schedule at his famed quick step. First warmly greeting Der Führer, he strode clear around the square inspecting Fascist militiamen. During the review which followed Mussolini...
...about to become a subsidiary of the CRIMSON, some of the more irresponsible editors of the Lampoon Board are making a last desperate bid for their freedom this morning. It is not the Crimson-Lampoon parody of the Daily Record which our readers will see today but a nondescript satire on the old CRIMSON competitor, The Harvard Herald...