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...Xenophon's 10,000 Greeks retreated through hostile territory for 1,500 miles from the Tigris, but they were not chased; Charles X of Sweden retreated 1,000 miles from Yaroslav to Warsaw, sometimes chased; Napoleon was haphazardly chased 500 miles from Moscow; Chief Joseph and 600 Nez Percé Indians were chased by the U.S. Army 1,300 miles from the Wallowa Valley in Oregon to the Canadian border, but 600 Indians could scarcely be called an army...
...17th Century when "even the act of excretion was often performed in public" and "kings and princesses . . . made conversation while seated on the chaise percée," the news of Cardinal Richelieu's piles had penetrated into every corner of the kingdom of France. To rally the Cardinal during his hemorrhoidal depressions, there used to pad into his room one of the most mysterious, potent and least known of Europe's great power politicians. He was His Grey Eminence, the barefoot Capuchin friar. Father Joseph-for some 20 years Richelieu's second brain...
...number assembled to say farewell to a departing evangelist), delivered ten formal addresses, held eleven big press conferences, appeared at ten scheduled receptions, and shaken hands with 15,000 voters. He had collected two ten-gallon hats, a case of canned corn, had watched the dance of the Nez Percé Indians and had been serenaded in Portland, Ore., by a fife & drum corps of Civil War veterans whose leader was 95. His secretary, yclept Lemoyne Jones in the effete East, became plain Lem Jones as soon as he was west of the mountains. Like all Presidential candidates, Candidate Dewey...
...Grand Coulee Candidate Dewey met New Dealish Chief Harry Owhi of the Nez Percé Indians but was not invited to join the tribe. He looked over the dam that will produce 2,646,000 h.p., provide irrigation for approximately 1.200,000 acres, said that as an American he was proud of it, denied that it could be an issue of 1940's campaign. ("There is an important and vital issue, though, in whether the country will go ahead on the basis of free private enterprise, so that you can employ the power that is generated there to give...
...Dame (RKO) is a more spectacular remake of an old horror film in which the late Lon (Man of a Thousand Faces) Chancy, with the help of an elaborately repulsive makeup, set a standard for cinema frightfulness hard to beat. So hard, that the more repulsive make-up (by Perc Westmore) with which British Cinemactor Charles Laughton proposed to beat it was a devoutly cherished secret of this production. Thirty-four pounds lighter than Lon Chaney's, Laughton's make-up consists of a sponge-rubber right cheek and false eye socket, which covers Laughton...