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...unsuccessful revolution against President Leguia his right arm was crippled and part of his skull crushed. Singlehanded this pocket wildcat silenced a machine-gun nest, received 14 more bullet wounds. Exiled in 1922, he filled in his spare time by serving in the Spanish Army in Morocco against the Riff. Last week he flew from Arequipa to Lima to take charge of the government. At the flying field, cheering followers tossed him to their shoulders, carried him three miles to the city gates, where, balanced precariously on the roof of a motor truck, he rode through the streets in triumph...
...time he was unceremoniously thrown out and much to his displeasure transferred to the Tank Corps. How he got back into the Air Force has always been something of a mystery-and here is the explanation. While he was attached to the tank outfit, the French war in the Riff was at its height. One day the French military attaché appeared at the Foreign Office in London and announced that his government had heard that Lawrence was in Morocco helping the Riffians. According to the attaché he had been seen on the spot. The Under Secretary who received...
Before the author of the murder is ascertained there are gruesome scenes of crime solution. Riff-raff from the pleasure caves, also a butler and a financier, are grilled by policemen. Not alone because of the alacrity with which the criminal's name is hit upon, the ceremonies of detection seem patterned upon the ways of the theatre rather than the ways of life. One Way Street is a melodramatic stereotype and its most exciting moment occurs when the audience sees, dangling brightly from- the end of a trunk, the shining hair of the murdered drug-girl...
...Oued el Abid, the only remaining zone inhabited by hostile Berbers north of the Atlas, at present surrounded on three sides by our military posts. This is a long, mountainous valley between the Middle and the High Atlas ranges and some two hundred and fifty miles southwest of the Riff...
Blackbirds of 1928. Every small-time circuit travels upon the sometimes not so nimble limbs of its tap dancers. These are often the riff-raff of their profession; the finest tap dancer in the world is Bill Robinson, long a spot of interest on Keith's tours. His feet are as quick as a snare drummer's hands; in Blackbirds he has a double flight of five stairs which, when he trots up and down it, produces a rapid tuneless and delicious music. Bill Robinson makes the show; if he were on the stage more of the time...