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Meanwhile, Il Duce, shrewd wooer of privacy on his official vacation, which began last week, arrived from the Republic of San Marino by motor (see above), sought the quay at Riccione, slipped unremarked on board a sailboat with his family...
White, billowy garments were brought to the condemned. Placards setting forth their guilt were hung about their necks. Attended each by an executioner, they marched in silence to the Smyrna quay...
...history* of a superior colored feller with a heap of style The Story. One brilliant noon a comely Negress made her way to the waterside at Barbadoes, leading by the hand her nine-year-old boy. At the quay she entered a small boat to carry her out to a barque, the captain of which had volunteered to take her along "kind o' friendly-like" to Panama. But she left the boy at the water's edge with the remark, "Dere is plenty of bananas and yams and things in B'bayados, also fowls." So Young Jehu...
...ninth Duke, "will not spend his money to purchase unnecessary collections," but will "take care of his properties and the welfare of his tenants." Two young Danes, Neils Ventegodt and Emil Ullskov, both of the Viking Club of Copenhagen, surprised the London Rowing Club by landing at their quay, having popped over from Denmark in a row boat. Said one of them...
...staggered drunkenly along a Cherbourg quay. French police espied him, attempted to hand him over to the U. S. S. Pittsburgh's police; but his cries for help attracted the attention of six of his mates, who successfully pummeled the police and rescued the unsteady gob. The matter was reported to Vice Admiral Andrews...