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...game of "Consequences." Authoress Stella Benson met Count Nicolas de Toulouse Lautrec de Savine in the charity ward of a Hongkong hospital. He was an inmate, she a visitor. Aged (77). penniless, shaky but brazen, the old scamp regaled her with such engagingly improbable tales, carried himself with such an unabashed air of grandeur that she was fascinated. A White Russian refugee, by his own account descended from an ancient French family, Count Nicolas spoke and wrote English of a sort; Authoress Benson decided to edit his rodomontadinous reminiscences. Pull Devil, Pull Raker is an antiphonal collaboration: the Count supplies...
...Japanese drive might go "right down to Canton" some 1,200 miles south of Tientsin. Before it began dickering it wanted proof that China was "serious" about wanting to dicker. Meanwhile in the evacuated territory north of Tientsin the Chinese soldiers strutted like heroes for their brief moment.* Scamp Shot. A hint of Japan's real intentions in China exploded last week in Peiping's Grand Hotel des Wagon-Lits. An assassin shot and gravely wounded that thoroughgoing scamp General Chang Ching-yao, onetime military governor of Hunan Province. Police announced that Chang's mission...
Although there are insufficient flyers in the U. S. to man the planes produced, and although this insufficiency has begun to thwart sales, the Department of Commerce has all along fought scamp training schools. Obvious reason: poorly trained pilots endanger life and property, in the air, on the ground. Last week, Assistant Secretary William Patterson MacCracken approved a set of regulations stiffening the requirements for Government licenses, which now stand as follows: For Private License. On the ground, 5 hrs. study of air commerce regulations, 10 hrs. of aviation engine study, 10 hrs. of airplane study (rigging, maintenance, repair...
Lazy skeptics and whining peg-legs, when they read this fluent and elaborate narrative, shook their heads in complete disparagement. "The lying scamp," they murmured, "a front porch he could climb." The London Times, however, believed Pegleg Winthrop, published his story and an editorial, "... a brave man to treat disablement in the War as a spur, not a curb...
Collins held good or not, Ben Bess's pardon could not be revoked. But whether he was an injured innocent or a scheming black scamp, jail promised to continue his lot. There was a warrant out for his arrest on another charge. He had, they said, attacked a fellow prisoner with a knife...