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Paunchy, shaggy-haired Premier Briand of France met taut-waisted, sleek Dictator-Premier Primo de Rivera of Spain at the Quai d' Orsay last week...
...rodents, fiber zibethicus. In 1903 an enterprising Czech farmer introduced them to the Danube basin where they increased and multiplied amazingly. But as they multiplied in their new environment, their coats deteriorated, becoming short and scrubby and unable to compete in the fur markets with the pelts of their sleek American cousins. Danube trappers gave up taking them. So they bred and littered more promiscuously than ever, and their multitudinous burrows honeycombing the Danube dikes-already left in disrepair by political upheavals- hastened the destruction of one of Europe's richest granaries in the torrential summer...
...First National Bank, National City Co., Guaranty Co. of N. Y., Bankers Trust Co., Lee, Higginson & Co., Glore, Ward & Co., Marshall Field. Proceeds of the issue will be used to expand the great Lingotto works at Turin, where a new scuttler will be added to the Fiat farrow-a sleek, snub, pike-pig that will sell...
Once more the river blossomed with gay little boats and with sleek grey or white yachts from whose decks, between races, came sounds of mirth mingled with the tinkling of ice; once more gentlemen slept three in a bed at the Griswold Hotel; once more ladies waved little blue or crimson flags and asked, "Who won?" They should have known that if this race is to remain a classic, the classic result must not be changed. Yale...
Summoned by a curt order, the Premier's sleek but thunderous motor shot to the portals of his residence, the Villa Toronia;* drew up with a screech...