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...rushed from Egypt to be piled around and above the British Legation in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa in case the Cheap Comedian should send bombing planes to blow Emperor Power of Trinity out of his palace. Punctually at 11:55 a. m. one day last week a pink silk veil covering the Emperor's box in Parliament was drawn aside and the shrewd, sharp-faced potentate addressed his people. He spoke in native dialect. Il Duce said afterward that his actual words as cabled from Addis Ababa by the Italian Minister were far stronger than the flowery official...
...great extent the deep diplomatic wisdom of the Holy See and its nuncios is at the disposal of fanatically pious, fanatically ambitious, hawk-eyed onetime Austrian Empress Zita. Last week this talented schemer, a veritable Metternich in silk skirts, provoked a nationwide Austrian sensation by having her handsome, silky-mustached young Son Archduke Otto announce that he expects to return to Vienna not as Emperor but as "Regent in the name of my mother." This move of Zita's had the aroma of Papal diplomacy, fine and fragrant as musk. In Vienna the Catholic cohorts of Chancellor Dr. Kurt...
...Narcissists skate, ski, sail, dive, fly, play tennis, pose with bubbles or just leap for joy. At the extreme right is a modernistic chair from which to emphasize the advantages of beauty through the centuries, a string of pearls have fallen and on which rest a gentleman's silk hat & gloves...
...mechanism of a Japanese imperial birth. Soon carpenters will whack together in the Fountain Garden the elaborate Maternity Pavilion which has to be built of spotless new materials every time the lean, bespectacled little Emperor's physicians decide to wind his plump and pretty Empress in a white silk maternity belt purified by Shinto priests...
...women flyers, the most consistently feminine is 30-year-old Laura Ingalls. She sports high heels, lipstick, orchid corsages, wears silk lingerie under her dungarees when working. She also has a sharp female tongue in her head, as clumsy airport mechanics upon whom she has used it can testify...