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...Causes. As is nearly always the case, the underlying causes of such events are carefully concealed from the public eye. The assigned reasons for these two retirements seem sufficiently motivated under the general terms of the official account to render superfluous any resort to hypothesis...
...From fire-escapes, closets, bathroom, through sawed panels and from behind couches, uncles, grandfathers, husbands and detectives pop suddenly into being. And such a slamming of doors and banging of windows and cries of " My God, what are you doing here ?" B's fiancee appears in time to render affairs positively catastrophic...
...prisoners was caused by the Powers' insistence on negotiations with the bandits; that guarantees against repetition must be reconsidered, because, in the absence of official connivance in the kidnapping and of an anti-foreign motive, in their present form they would be likely to incense the people and render nugatory security for foreign lives and property. Without foreign coercion, the note said, the Chinese Government is punishing responsible officials and making every effort to suppress brigandage. The scheme for railway police, put forward by the Diplomats in their note under the head of guarantees, was criticized principally because...
Hitherto experiments in this direction have been inconclusive because of the difficulty of obtaining suitable subjects. Puppies purchased in ordinary ways may have had slight cases of the disease which would render them immune to infection. Or again they may become accidentally infected by importation of the germs by attendants. The new plan will eliminate these possibilities as far as possible...
...there was some disturbance and even a mention of legal proceedings arising over the fact that Jules Daiber of New York, who had been Mme. Melius' manager, became the manager of Mme. Walska. Mme. Melius maintained that she had a contract with Mr. Daiber which bound him to render her exclusive managerial service. The two ladies were thus brought into rivalship. There will be much gossip about Mme. Melius' attempt to conquer Paris where Mme Walska failed...