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...seeming cure hemophilia-successively the curse of the Romanovs and the Bourbons-brooded over the match. In haste Father Borel read a brief Latin, service. Swiss police, alarmed by a threatening note that the bridegroom was in "grave danger," guarded every shadow of the church. Almost furtively, as the serv ice ended, the new Count & Countess slipped out, dashed away in a motor car to spend their honeymoon some 30 miles distant at Evian-les-Bains...
...wrapping paper manufacturers puzzled over the cable, then wrote and mailed a cautious British letter. The esteemed favour of the 15th inst. was received, but might they enquire how the wrapping paper was to be wrapped? They had the honour to remain. Sirs, y'r obedient & humble serv'ts. By the time this letter reached Canada, the customers, who had received no cabled reply to their order, were already wrapping parcels with U. S. wrapping paper, ordered by telephone, promptly shipped and delivered...
...scattered Treasury newshawks attending what would probably be their last press conference with this shy little man puffing meditatively on a black cigar no bigger than a cigaret. His career as Secretary of the Treasury was over; President Hoover, calling him "one of our wisest and most experienced public serv-ants." was sending him to London as U. S. Ambassador...
Journalism, To the Atlanta Constitution, a gold medal worth $500 for "most disinterested and meritorious public serv- ice": a probe, instigated by able Editor Clark Howell, of corruption in Atlanta's municipal government, resulting so far in eleven convictions and ten pleas of guilt to charges of fraud, bribery...
...very soon, Gambler Bonfils appeared upon the scene to collaborate with Bartender Tammen in one of the most prodigious campaigns for circulation in the history of journalism. They imported from Publisher Hearst, then at his yellowest, some of the country's leading scarehead artists. They told them that their serv- ices for Publisher Hearst had been the height of probity compared to what they must do now. They must hell-rake kitchens and what passed in Denver then for boudoirs, for scandal and gossip of the most personal sort. Their gleanings they must then dress with language and emphases known...