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Italy. Like Mussolini, Italian soldiers are pouter pigeons, wear caps eight inches tall to make up for their short stature. But in the hard school of war they have learned to fight as well as strut. For the modern Italian army (900,000 men) is the only important European military machine with recent war experience. So its junior officers are apt to know more about fighting than junior officers of other nations...
Edward of Wales, a deft amateur cartoonist, had caught to the life the sombre frock-coated figure of the Chancellor, characteristically enlivened by the fact that he had thrust his large thumbs into the armholes of his waistcoat and expanded his chest with the confidence of a pouter pigeon. Finally Cartoonist Wales had sketched in heroic proportions the glass containing a refreshing beverage-said by some to be whiskey & soda-without which Chancellor Churchill seldom addresses the House at any length...
...last week, after dimpled "La Talley" and dainty "La Bori" had kissed their hands a few last times to Manhattan; after flamboyant Martinelli had strutted through Pagliacci and pouter-pigeon Gigli had caroled Rigoletto; after Signer Gatti Casazza had proclaimed the past season his most successful ever, and his opera the best in the world, the Metropolitan entrained, trunks, bags and scenery, ultimately for Atlanta and Cleveland but for a first stop in Columbia's District...
Prideful as a pouter pigeon, Gabriele d' Annunzio, spoiled heroic darling of all Italy, announced last week that "cherry elixir," a liqueur invented and concocted by himself, has been pronounced "most excellent" by the Sanctissimus Pater, Pius XI (Achille Ratti...
...humor. Followed Belle Storey, "America's foremost Coloratura Soprano". Marvel of marvels, she is not only possessed of a voice and evidently has heard the English language spoken, but she is an extremely pleasant object for contemplation. We had thought that all good singers must be built on the pouter pigeon model and Miss Storey was an agreeable surprise...