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...Secret Service agent with a delightful Southern drawl, since the opening of school. They live in the same cottage near the campus, and are constantly together except when the President's son is attending classes. Last week the press heard of young Mr. Coolidge's protector for the first time. Forthwith rumors began to brew and circulate. Some said that cranks had been threatening the "First Son of the Land". . . . Others whispered that Colonel Starling's prime duty was to prevent Son John from eloping with Florence Trumbull, daughter of the Governor of Connecticut. At his home...
...Protector. In Berlin, policewomen recommend to girls a device invented by one Emil Pruess. Not to all girls, but to nice girls, above all to nice girls who are pretty. It is called in German, the "Anti-Masher." A nice girl, imperiled, perhaps disastrously, presses against her assailant's body an induction coil attached to the Pruess Battery, which she carries concealed under her dress. Low amperage of 1,000 volts destroys consciousness...
...Bled, Jugoslavia, the foreign ministers of Czechoslovakia (Benes), Roumania (Mitilineu) and Jugoslavia (Nintchitch) assembled amid the awful diplomatic secrecy characteristic of all meetings of the Little Entente.* The announced agenda included discussion of: 1) The European situation-presumably reference to the growing ascendancy of Italy† as the protector of the Little Entente and the coincident ambiguous position of France in that role. Notorious are Mussolini's secret conferences with Jugoslav Premier Nintchitch, his furtherance of a Roumanian loan at Rome, his diplomatic feelers into the Eastern Balkans, notably signalized last week by the bestowal upon Greek Dictator-President...
...Court to place the entire blame upon my shoulders. I beg for the acquittal of the men who obeyed my orders, seeing in me their protector in a great service to the fatherland...
...Miss Brewster's Millions" is an excellent picture. It is a triumph. And the man with the pedestrian protector is a hero. They are all heroes--except Bebe. She is a heroine--and if you know of a better heroine--The Lamb's Club--well, she is rather amusing--quite amusing. But one doesn't go to the Lambs' Club. "Miss Brewster's Millions" is most entertaining...