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Yale's President Angell: "Brave leader of your people in a time of peril, with indomitable courage and good cheer . . . you have brought high intelligence and complete devotion to the service of the nation...
...snakelike route of 2,000 miles from Teheran to Ankara (see map) was itself a gigantic achievement of the two Dictators. Before they ousted the do-nothing hereditary royal dynasties of Turkey and Persia such a journey could only be made by meandering caravan and in utmost peril of attack by bandits. Most savage of all were the Kurdish cutthroats who for generations had defied both Persian and Turkish soldiers, raiding (first into one country, then into the other along their common frontier. Perhaps the wisest and most enlightened act of the King of Kings was to conclude two years...
What Belgium most fears is that Leopold III, a passionate devotee of mountain climbing like his father who climbed once too often, will continue to persist in this risky royal sport, thus keeping the realm in peril of another accident which might leave the Belgians stranded with a three-year-old King Baudoin...
...children! I am the Guardian of the waters and all its inhabitants, by appointment of Neptune, our Master. This joust is a menace to your safety, and contrary to the laws of divine love, and natural selection. Hence I must now protect you, my children from this, your peril...
Taking many of his cues from his predecessors in the field Mr. Edmonds does not blaze any remarkably new trail, and sometimes seems content merely, to retrace the stops of Mark Twain and Bret Harte. A story such as the "Death of Red, Peril," a tale of racing caterpillars, would indeed be famous, had Mark Twain never written his "Jumping Frog...