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...decided to have a look at the U. S. armament business. Its members had been reading books, looking at magazines and listening to lectures, and on the theory that gunsmiths and powder-makers instigate wars to sell their goods, the Senate created a special investigating committee and put slim, sleek-haired Senator Nye of North Dakota in charge...
...doing, from opening the Chamber of Deputies to attending a garden party, grizzled, militant King Vittorio Emmanuele III nearly always wears the uniform of a general. For a wonder last week His Majesty put on civilian clothes, stepped with Her Majesty and their youngest daughter Princess Maria into a sleek Fiat limousine. It slid down the crushed oyster shell drive of the royal villa at San Rossore. took the long white road north, unescorted and unannounced. Citizens of the bustling little seaside town of Viareggio had no idea that their King and Queen were among them as the royal...
...crowded through closely-guarded doorways into the salons of the great Parisian couturiers. Inside the warm air was heavy with perfume and the smell of new silk. Buyers who usually paid $100 to get in (refunded on the first order) cocked their heads and adjusted their glasses as the sleek mannequins rustled to ward them in long-skirted evening gowns, sport dresses with Brazil nuts for buttons, coats made of steamer rugs, woolen dresses with oilcloth grapes. Soon the buyers would stream out of the city with notes and gossip on the fashions Paris was about to set the world...
...opening match, Shields, serving wildly, lost the first game. Austin, sleek-haired, wearing ?3 flannel shorts, worked the score to 4-all, then broke Shields's serve, took the set, 6-4. Flustered by an opponent who refused to be stampeded by cannonball serves and occasional blistering volleys, Shields tried to pull his game together, managed to lead, 4-2, in the second set. Thereafter the match was all Austin...
...jealous nation and do not like to see foreign sportsmen triumph. Maribel Vinson [champion U. S. woman figure-skater from 1928 to 1934] was unfairly marked down by the judges, for a Swedish competitor to get a better placing." Actually, as Idrottsbladet scathingly pointed out, international judges rated sleek-legged Miss Vinson fifth for the world championship largely because she skidded and fell. They gave fourth place to a Swedish girl and first place as usual to Norway's superb Sonja Henie. Able Lawyer Steinhardt had already stepped aboard a steamer bound for Gotland, Sweden's "Island...