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...Pack opp my bags," he said. The Gigli secretary (Amadeo Grossi) sprang to obey. The Gigli trainer (H. J. Reilly) stepped forward with a glass of water. What would the Gigli Manhattan manager (R. E. Johnston) say to this! What would the Gigli Detroit manager (Mrs. Isobel Hurst) advise him to do? Beniamino Gigli did not know, did not care. Contract or no contract, he was going back to Manhattan...
...many states it became a political bogey. The peak of its power, it appears, came in about 1923. Soon, however, it began to disintegrate; scandal and dissension seized upon it internally; rival organizations sprang up?the Independent Klan, the Knights of the Flaming Sword, etc.?and in some places community pressure attacked it from without...
Arkansas. Much dissension broke the local Klans from the national body. The Independent Klan sprang up and later changed its name to the Mystic Knights of Arkansas, which claims to be non-political and nonreligious. The Klan has probably fewer than 10,000 members left. The present Governor was elected over its opposition. Politicians generally announce that they have left the Klan...
...conspire with the likewise disgruntled General Kondylis (exiled last week) and with Admiral Hadjikyriakos (his present silent partner in dictatorship). In 1922, the three were about to launch a coup d'état, when two other discontented officers, Colonels Plastiras and Gonatas, got ahead of them. The adroit colonels sprang a coup of their own; sprang it first; sent King Constantine packing for the last time* acknowledged his eldest son, George II, as their King; and proceeded to "dictate" as they liked...
...sprang back with a sharp cry. Workers of the Edison Electric Illuminating Co. were called. They found that a short-circuited conduit had given the puddle a charge of 120 volts...