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...bantam, pugnacious Colonel Cerro, five-foot-flat, is a molecule of a man, an explosive molecule. Brown as a berry, he has been fighting all his life. He is scarred with 16 gunshot wounds. In 1914 leading a revolution against the then President of Peru (who bore the good Nordic name of George E. Billingshurst) three fingers of his left hand were shot away. In 1921 in an unsuccessful revolution against President Leguia his right arm was crippled and part of his skull crushed. Singlehanded this pocket wildcat silenced a machine-gun nest, received 14 more bullet wounds. Exiled...
Atlantic Coast Fisheries, Inc., made Harden Franklin Taylor its president. Long a vice president, Mr. Taylor invented the Taylor Process for quick-freezing, concentrated production on "Nordic Fillet of Haddock," responsible for Atlantic's recent success (FORTUNE...
...covered 623 mi., 1,230 yd. in six days, the longest distance ever covered by a human being in that period of time, whether he be a Flying Finn or a Red Indian. Thus showing that in endurance the good old Anglo-Celtic stock of the Nordic race is second to none...
...stamps (29,800) were speedily sold. Letters from the facetious, protests from puritans flooded the Spanish Postoffice, the International Postal Union. Plaints ranged from statements that what is art in Latin countries is obscenity in the Nordic north, to threats of official proceedings against the Spanish Government for sending obscene matter through the mails. To the postal union wrote a Swiss zealot...
Even though the Latin temperament seems to prefer outbreaks in favor of autocracy, and the Nordic revolts a means to further Democracy, the younger generation of the world reverts to riots as the logical method of expression. It is Youth's eternal privilege to be indiscreet...