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...Kellogg's only argument for adoption of his plan is based upon the anti-war resolution signed at the Pan-American Conference by seventeen nations of the New World which are also members of the League of Nations. The only inference drawn from this by France is that someone has been preying upon the innocent, and that, since it isn't Mr. Bryan, then it must be Mr. Hughes...
...Seventeen operas in two weeks made up the Boston run. Then the Chicago Civic Opera Company packed up its costumes and picked up its skirts for a pilgrimage through the south to the Pacific. Reviewing the home season, Chicago operaddicts agreed that it had been in no way notable for novelties and revivals. Monna Vanna, Sapho, Linda Di Chamounix, doubtful additions to the repertoire, had apparently displaced proved productions of Der Rosenkavalier, Don Giovanni, Pelleas. The new ballet had cavorted around in better style than the old one; but there had been an orchestral slump, in part produced...
Salvage work on the S-4 was continued by 18 expert divers under Rear Admiral Frank H. Brumby. Seventeen shapes, sodden with oil and sea water, were retrieved, including the corpse of Lieut. Commander Jones. Twenty more "diving days" were needed to raise the hulk...
...journalist to earn my livelihood ? I am pleased to say with some success. My articles have appeared in almost every great country in the world and my emoluments from this source during these four years have been much greater than the aggregate of my salaries during seventeen years of office. This statement would have been an unwarrantable boast on my part had it not been rendered necessary by the cowardly slander privately circulated as to my use of party funds...
Dundee met the stranger for the last time in Shanghai. Dundee was down to his last chip at roulette. "Don't play it on. the four," said the stranger. "Play it on number seventeen." Number seventeen lost, of course...