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...Wedderburn was hailed by optimistic Foreign Minister C. T. Wang as "the first step toward the return of all leased territory China now held by foreigners." (Last month Sir Miles rushed by warship from Shanghai to Lady Lampson's bedside in Hongkong, arrived just before she died.) The snug hill-bound harbor of Weihaiwei on the northeast coast of Shantung Province, faces-across the Yellow Sea-onetime Russian stronghold of Port Arthur. It was leased to Great Britain in 1898 to compensate for Russia's Port and Germany's Tsingtao. No a military watchdog, Weihaiwei has assumed...
...afternoon George V was whisked to visit his sister Louise, the Princess Royal, now convalescent from her recent illness, at her snug home in Portman Square. That night he celebrated, went to the theatre for the first time since he fell sick a year ago. Intellectuals who tried to guess what play His Majesty would choose ruled out one, the U. S. musical comedy Rose Marie which ran in London with the persistency of an Abie's Irish Rose and has recently been revived. In past years King George and Queen Mary have seen Rose Marie a total...
Soon triumphant Whitney Warren was booming to reporters in his snug Manhattan office: "Most gratifying! Most! All over the world this decision will have an important effect upon the rights of artists, particularly architects. Heretofore clients have felt free to make such changes as they felt desirable in plans furnished them by architects. This decision seems to me to support the architect's claim to the right to impose his own interpretation of an architectural problem...
Present Soviet Commissar for War is quiet, conscientious Klimentiy Voroshilov, "a man," according to famed Correspondent Alexander Nazarov, "whose modesty and lack of excessive talents have been definitely appreciated." Last week untalented Voroshilov went to Bobruisk on the Polish frontier. Snug-buttoned in his ankle-length army overcoat, he reviewed a cavalry division, congratulated Red Army Generals on the successful conclusion of their annual autumn maneuvers...
Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd sat sombrely in his snug Antarctic base last week, thinking of Laurence McKinley Gould, Harold J. June and Bernt Balchen, who the previous week had flown to the Rockefeller Mountains, 128 miles away. By radio they had reported their arrival there, then fallen silent for days...