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...last week Professor Breasted was indiscreet. He announced Mr. Rockefeller's offer prematurely, that is, before Egypt's acceptance was certain. The figure announced was the exceedingly plump one of ten millions. So swift and sweeping was public enthusiasm that the opposition could but dwindle. King Fuad waited to compose his reply, but a Rockefeller architect, fresh from Cairo, declared that all was well, that plans were already being draughted for two one-story buildings to stand on the island of Gezira, opposite Cairo's richest residential quarter. These are to cost about five and a half millions, the balance...
...from his raised throne: "Accipe galerum rubrum!" (Take the red hat!), and each had held over his head by a master of ceremonies the low-crowned, wide, curled-brim red hat of the cardinal. Brother cardinals caught them by the elbows and kissed them on both cheeks; the queerly plump Sistine choir sang; His Holiness departed; all cardinals adjourned to sing a Te Deum; the happy audience departed...
...royal death, the Gazette likewise trumpeted the Siamese equivalent for "Long Live The King!" Oval faced, almond eyed, inscrutable, Prince Pracha Tipok, ascended the throne of his unfortunate brother with the thankful gravity of one whose star, long dimmed, at length shines brightly. His Queen, by nature plump and radiant as a full-waxed moon, assumed likewise a fitting decorum. Both joined in extending what comfort they might to handsome Chao Chom Suvadena, Queen for a few anguished weeks, "demoted" by death...
...Herbert Hoover, the quiet, plump little Secretary of Commerce, got the Fourth National Radio Conference together, as he did the previous ones. Hitherto the radio industry has kept rather well out of politics and away from legislative regulation. It has done so because of the success of the previous conferences in settling their problems. Mr. Herbert Hoover has been largely responsible for that...
Last week the plump sausage-shaped area defended by Abd-el-Krim was severely French-fried on its convex southern exposure. Early in the week French confidence and enthusiasm, in both Paris and Morocco, reached extraordinary heights...