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...reply President-elect Prestes, perfectly in the Latin tradition, showed how to employ the raging breast, the flowery metaphor and the torrential expletive while remaining perfectly correct and sleek: "Pan-Americanism, fruit of an ambitious dream! . . . one which only in idealism could be called excessive . . . Pan-Americanism . . . fought against the obstacles which were strewn in its way, triumphed over them even as faith and beauty must always triumph...
...Supposing I wanted a ticket for Suada in the fourth race?" said the King-Emperor tentatively to the sleek little man in the tote, "What...
...heavy steel wire stretched across the road had forced the last limousine to halt with screaming brakes. One of its occupants was the present Rumanian Minister to the U. S., sleek Charles A. Davila. In vain he tried diplomatic blandishments on the robbers. "Shut up and lie down!" they ordered, brandishing clubs. Diplomatist Davila lay down...
Vexed by his losses at Monte Carlo, an indignant player in sleek evening clothes rose from one of the roulette tables last week, extracted a hand grenade from his tailcoat pocket, tossed it onto the wheel where the little ball spun, then quickly made his escape amid panic...
Backed by the goodwill of many a potent, impeccable U. S. corporation with whom he deals in millions, bold Board Chairman Peter Alexeivich Bogdanov of Amtorg actually dared last week to sug gest that he will sue sleek Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen, Police Commissioner of New York. If Red Bogdanov succeeds in silencing Mr. Whalen, "ruble diplomacy" will have won its outstanding victory thus far, for the Commissioner charged last week nothing less than that Amtorg is a backer, political and financial, of organized Communist agitation in the U. S., that Amtorg in short is helping to foment "the World...