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...more were arrested in Manchukuo. In Moscow, where Josef Stalin is not anxious for a fight, correspondents were told that "Russia will not move unless her soil is trod upon." In Tokyo testy old War Minister Senjuro Hayashi, a lion in the field though some what of a peacock in a photographer's studio, blustered...
Once again last week news of Norine Lattimore caused painful embarrassment for another Dolores, who a decade ago used to stalk handsomely about the stage of the Ziegfeld Follies disguised as a white peacock.* There was some excuse for the confusion. Both were famed at the same time. Both were tall, beautiful and British. Both had been models and neither was christened Dolores. But Kathleen Marie Rose, the Dolores of the Follies, has never caused a suicide, slept on a park bench, married a Negro, done a fasting act in a barrel. On her retirement from the stage she married...
...bloc to be constructed in spite of Britain and France by Moslems of Turkey, Persia, Irak, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Transjordania and Egypt. Such at least is Dr. Rushdi's dream. And last week the King of Kings had left Persia for the first time since he seized the Peacock Throne in 1925 to discuss both Moslem dreams and realities with his Turkish neighbors...
...soldiers at Sebastopol. She edited the poem thoroughly, made the second stanza read: Her brow is like the snowdrift, Her neck is like the swan, Her face it is the fairest That e'er the sun shone on. . . . Willie Douglas' version: She's backit like the peacock, She's briestit like the swan; She's jimp about the middle, Her waist ye weel micht span. . . . Last week in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Captain Reginald Houldsworth was married to Margaret May Laurie, Annie Laurie's great-great-great-great-great-great niece. The bride was given away...
...Charles Penrose Rushton Coodet son, grandson and son-in-law of British admirals, strode the bridge of H. M. S. Peacock and trained his guns upon the iniquitous Boxers of Tientsin. For that they gave him the China Medal. In 1904, on the bridge of H. M. S. Dryad he plowed the Indian Ocean from the Strait of Malacca to the Gulf of Aden, trained his guns on Mohammed bin Abdullah, the mad Mullah of Somaliland. For that they made him a Medal & Clasp Commander. In 1914, -15, -16, -17 on the flagship of the British Destroyer Flotilla, he trained...