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So British destroyers, heavy and light, and cruisers and submarines too, continued prowling in force along the three-mile sea limit of Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Germany as well as these neutrals was made to feel that they would not hesitate to dash in if they sighted a German warship...
Sergeant Holsen and another policeman were riding patrol one day when they sighted a troop of baboons. The men took a few pot shots with their revolvers and the apes fled. One, scuttling on all fours like the rest, lagged behind. Captured, he proved to be a black native boy...
It is my personal opinion that despite the chaotic, half-crazed existence which Van Gogh led, his paintings are as sanc, as natural as any creation ever to come from the brush of an artist. If, as many say, they are the artistic symptoms of a deranged mind, it can...
It was news to the world that part of the British Home Fleet was at Scapa Flow last week, because First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill had said it was not there. It was bigger news that a battle squadron of 14 or more Heinkel bombers from their base...
So low-born as to be nameless, Aretino took his name from his town, Arezzo, where he was born on Good Friday of the year Columbus sighted America. (Good Friday, as his enemies loved to remind the world, was the legendary birthday of the Antichrist.) Mature and restive at 15...