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...success of the show depends on the realism of its staging. While latitude is graciously granted a Shakespearian company in dealing with the setting of a drama which has a twelfth century background, so commonplace a mode of transportation as an underground railway must come up to scratch in every way. It must be said, to the credit of the producers of the "Subway Express", that they have managed this feature of their presentation eminently satisfactorily...
...door after door, arrived at the bullpen where many Negroes huddled, praying. They stripped Thomas Shipp, dragged him out to the jail yard, strung him to a windowbar until he was dead, lynchee No. 10 of the year. They bashed Abe Smith unconscious with a sledgehammer, let women trample & scratch him, carried him a block away and hung him to a maple in the Courthouse yard, lynchee...
Near the height of artistic anonymity are those painstaking workmen in government office who scratch designs for postage stamps on metal dies. For every hundred philatelists who know the value of a one-cent postoffice Mauritius ($20,000) scarcely one knows the name of its engraver, J. Barnard. No such anonymity is the fate of Stamp Engraver Sanchez Toda, designer of the Spanish Goya memorial stamps which reached U. S. post offices last week. Cables carried his name round the world, foreign reformers held high their hands in horror...
Like Tsar Nicholas II's sickly little Tsarevitch, the Prince of the Asturias (Crown Prince of Spain) was afflicted from birth with haemophilia, a dread and supposedly incurable disease. When a haemophile receives even the slightest cut his wound heals so slowly that from the merest scratch he may bleed to death. The Prince of the Asturias, 23, suddenly appeared in Paris not only in apparent good health but palpably, impressively robust...
...vigor and alertness which flabbergasted as much as it pleased his friends. As Prime Minister the shaggy sheep dog was often lazy, muddling and inept-sometimes disgracefully so. On a public platform during the "Lord's Prayer," he would fiddle with his notes twitch his nose or scratch his ear (instead of praying), and later he would cross one leg over the other and look bored (instead of standing on both feet and joining in "God Save the King"). Indeed as Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin resembled exactly an amiable sheep dog licking his paws, but last week as Leader...