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...Shield From Chill Syrian Winter...
Years ago, before the mossless rolling stone was rampant on the shield of this particular vagabond the rolling Easter egg held sway. Painted in gaudy and inedible colors, the largest duck eggs were brought every Easter Monday by an Easter rabbit, and reckless little boys tried unsuccessfully to eat them. My pursuit of golden eggs in those days was as ardent as it is today...
...discretion is incredible. As President Pringle himself remarked on reading the number. "I do not understand this at all." We do not understand it either. The police have good reason to complain. But better days may come, corruption may breed incoruption and Brockton clear this blot from its shield. In the meantime the Blimp must do its best to correct its fault by a real, clean, good number...
...black-bearded man wearing a cocked hat and displaying an immense brass shield called last week at the Hotel Chambord in the Champs-Elysees, Paris. His impressive uniform proclaimed him a huissier, a process-server. With dignity he delivered to one of the hotel clerks a paper serving notice upon the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Roumania that his first (morganatic) wife, Zizi Lambrino, had arrived at Paris from Bucharest and started suit to recover 10 million fanes from him, avowedly on the grounds that she is still his wife. Zizi. It. was recalled that the Roumanian Government has sufficiently...
...stuff of romance is in this book;--hard riding Celts sweeping down upon Saxon shield walls; Drusus, prefect of the Damnonian March, leading forth the remnants of Roman civilization in Britain to quell the barbarian invaders; love, conspiracy, and battle in Lyonesse in the tumultuous days which followed the death of King Arthur...