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...booted footmen sprang up behind, the coachman cracked his whip, and out through Grosvenor Gate the coach rolled, to smack into collision with a lumbering scarlet omnibus. With one horse streaming blood, the coach careened wildly up Park Lane at a dead run. White-faced but resolute, Sir George Sidney Clive, D. S. 0. bounced about. There was a second collision near the corner by the Marble Arch with an evil-smelling sweeper's cart, wrenching a wheel off the coach. Shaken but uninjured the Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps descended from his rehearsal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pomp & Circumstances | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

Well, that is that, and we suppose that there is nothing to be done about it, but we regret this Blue Grass attitude which seems to smack of a top lofty and undemocratic spirit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BARBERS AND COLONELS | 2/14/1935 | See Source »

Whenever it gets in Benito Mussolini's way, the League of Nations gets slapped. Smack! In 1923 Italy's brand new Dictator startled the world by shushing the League when it sought to interfere with his bombardment of Corfu, his successful move to force the Greek Government to pay 50,000,000 lire ($4,265,000 Roosevelt) indemnity for the killing of an Italian general by Greek bandits. Two weeks ago II Duce was in a mood to smack that luckless Ethiopian His Majesty Power of Trinity, Emperor of Ethiopia and Conquering Lion of Judah, who promptly squealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: African Overture? | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

...looking for the bicycle department," he explained later, "I ran smack into the giant statue of a man with a smirk, half undressed. The inscription said he was G. Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Undressed Father | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...Euston-to-Blackpool express rocketed north through the night of the British midlands just west of Manchester, past the signal box at tiny Winwick Junction and smack into a puttering local. When the tumult had died and the ten dead had been laid out in the morgue, British Justice last week went ponderously to work on the facts. To an inquest at Warrington was summoned William Bloor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Misadventure at Winwick | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

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