Word: packs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christ upon the Cross. Against the wall in the uniform of an Admiral a man of shadows with a long blue jaw sits, almost invisible, upon the Throne of Spain. Palace guards in costumes that have not changed since the 16th Century usher into the shadowy Throne Room a pack of gentlemen, most of them incongruous in 20th Century boiled shirts. Their leader, the Captain-General of Spain's Navy, a man with close-cropped hair and clipped mustache who does not look his 70 years, advances, and humbly bows to the Admiral upon the Throne. His Most Catholic...
Presently from Madeira the station master at Bordeaux received an urgent request. He must find Marshal Pilsudski's state sword. It was thought to be in the car. The station master was formally authorized in the name of Marshal Pilsudski to break the seals, rummage the car, pack up the sword if found, and despatch it by the next boat to Madeira...
...chafed to the bone by ill-fitting shoes. Last week he strapped snowshoes on his feet and entered the 200-mi. snowshoe race from Quebec to Montreal, competing with northwoodsmen who had used snowshoes all their lives. Frank Hoey started ahead and Joie Ray was far back in the pack. His cheeks froze; he tramped through deep snow with his face wrapped in bandages. After the third day's lap he was third, with Hoey still leading. At the finish on the eighth day he trailed, a slow & sorry seventh. Hoey won the $1,250 first prize...
...along comes Dr. Axel Munthe, with his equally estimable book The Story of San Michcle and tells us, on p. 67, of the "terrible episode of the six Russian peasants bitten by a pack of mad wolves and sent to the Institut Pasteur." Dr. Munthe continues with his sorry tale of how these six moujiks all became "raving mad" and the "doomed men" were "helped to a painless death" and "all of the newspapers were full of the most ghastly descriptions of the death of the Russian moujiks...
...affairs to keep going in various villas thereabouts, leaves his own place for weeks on end. Delice has discovered that he has become a drug addict and Dorn attempts to clear things up by talking to Rezzonica in no uncertain terms. The prince commits suicide. Dorn and Delice pack...