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...Kabibble," whose creator is an extremely race-proud Jew. One of Cartoonist Hershfield's proudest boasts is that the late great philanthropist Nathan Straus used to send him ideas for "Abie." Sample Straus...
...Proudest of the ex-Kings is Alfonso XIII of Spain. Though the world is welcome to the knowledge that haemophilia taints his family's blue blood, nobody must suspect that he is financially strapped. When Alfonso broke the engagement of his daughter Beatriz to her cousin Prince Alvaro d'Orléans (TIME, Nov. 16), he publicly announced that it was because she was a carrier of the dreaded disease. Not so proud was eccentric Infanta Eulalia, Prince Alvaro's grandmother. "Ridiculous!" she snapped. "Absurd! King Alfonso is not opposed. . . . We simply have been unable to make...
...Hohenzollerns Prussia was a rugged country and fair to see. Fogs blew up off the Baltic and settle down over the hills. Great baronial estates sprawled over the land. Fat cattle dwelt in the fields, and tall grass swayed in the winds. There lived in this territory the proudest, bravest, most solid people the world had seen, the Prussian Junkers. They had rallied to the support of the Great Elector, they had fought for Frederick in the dreary days of Zorndorf. They had built the Prussian nation...
...Paris last April, the U. S. Press has angled intently for his story. One magazine, as Alfonso ex plained, bluntly cabled $10,000 for a 1,000-word article. Alfonso XIII probably would like $10,000 as well as the next man, but he is also one of the proudest members of a proud race. Said...
...sniper) "he shot a dog, then a keeper, and finally an aged cottager who had been rash enough to do her washing near an open window." When the victim cried to her mistress that she was wounded: "My good woman," she replied, "this ought to be the proudest moment of your life. You have had the distinction of being shot by the great Duke of Wellington...