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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through Palestine last week rioting, sniping, bombing continued day after day. Airplanes, tanks and kilted Highlanders had been sent from Egypt weeks ago to help British High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenville Wauchope. More of them went last week, still without ending the rioting. For whatever assistance it might be worth, the Barham, one of Britain's most massive battleships, anchored off Haifa...
Swinging on Sir Thomas, Mr. Churchill cried...
...Well, as, a -er-matter of fact," blushed bulbous Sir Thomas, "I haven't! But I shall take the matter up with the chiefs of staff at the earliest possible...
From this high level the South Atlantic States fell off sharply again. Most reactionary of the show were two calendar works by Delaware's Stanley M. Arthurs and Frank E. Schoonover, showing the first voyage of the steamship Clermont and Sir Lancelot Leadeth Lady Belle Isoudt to the Castle at Joyous Card. Hanging between these two was a violent group of black bucks looking at two dice that add up to seven, by Florida's Christopher Clark. There were also a number of flower studies...
...dingy brownish black, with spiny forelegs and large, staring eyes. Their legs were orange and their wings, which spread three inches when open, bore dark markings resembling the letter "W." The gardener took news of his discovery to plump, grey-haired Lady Lindsay, wife of moose-tall Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay. Lady Lindsay suggested telephoning to the Department of Agriculture. One of the Department's entomologists told the worried gardener that the insects were part of a huge and famed brood-Brood X-of periodical cicadas known scientifically as Tibicina septendecim and popularly as "17-year-locusts." The entomologist...