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...suit sounds like a revival of all the favorite political targets of approximately 1912. It would not have been the perfect specimen it is of that period if it had not dragged in the names...
...Reds in the Baltic. Later he visited Istanbul (where he introduced the Irish jig to the astonished Turks), moved on to India, where he got in some skirmishing on the northwest frontier. He also found time to marry beauteous Lady Margaret Diana Bingham; they have three children. A classic specimen of the English professional officer type, Alexander is self-contained, quiet, outwardly confident when the world shakes. He speaks German, French, Italian, Russian, Urdu, seems to be at home anywhere. Last fortnight, in the thick of the Italian fighting, his U.S. aide, Captain John Grimsby, was startled to hear...
...stage performance of Boris Godunoff, which opened the Metropolitan Opera's diamond jubilee season last week, Critic Downes was right. The horse, a splendid specimen of white charger from the Ben Hur Stables, succeeded repeatedly in bringing down the house. On several occasions as his rider, Tenor Armand Tokatyan, soared toward a top note, the animal turned a ripely expressive backside to the audience and obliged Tokatyan to sing squarely into the scenery...
...minute zoological specimen...
...next day, the pretty, but not too pretty, intelligent, but not too intelligent young wife gave birth to a perfect specimen of manhood. The handsome young CPA Sr. announced that the perfect baby would be named a fine steady name--John Adams Hancock to haunt pretty, but not too pretty, intelligent, but not too intelligent (etc.) young WAVES...