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...British Reds were snapping up copies of a handy new work, Defence of Madrid, the siege of which still rages, written by the London News Chronicle's, civil war Correspondent Geoffrey Cox, a warm Communist sympathizer and a fairly objective reporter. Merrily he writes of a Madrid midnight spree with police of the present regime in a "black, swift, open Mercédès-Benz" which he thinks must once have "belonged to a millionaire." The driver "had nearly half a bottle [of] John Haig [whiskey], drinking it off like wine. . . .You know what this...
Arlington opened the scoring in the first period, with the Crimson retaliating soon after by shoving two past the goalie. Play was fairly even in the second frame. Late in the third, the Yardlings went on a scoring spree, clinching the victory with three more goals...
...English Channel, he won recognition. From then on, England was autogiro headquarters. English capital financed the Cierva Autogiro Co. Inventor de la Cierva, Royalist son of King Alfonso's Minister of War, was glad to stay away from Spain after King Alfonso was dethroned. Except for an occasional spree with his four children, he devoted himself entirely to aviation, worked out two great improvements of his original autogiro design. One was the elimination of wings and other airplane control surfaces, making the giro controlled directly by manipulating the rotor. The other improvement, perfected this year, was the jump takeoff...
...juices, cereals ("except rice"), eggs. On the fourth day she has "a big juicy steak" and a romp with her only Philadelphia companion, a wire-haired terrier named Whiskers, from whose loin Miss Medes six years ago removed a kidney. Last week Miss Medes was vacationing from a November spree, will go on another after New Year...
...local Storage Warehouse Union called a strike on all but one of the city's six biggest department stores. John Wanamaker's was exempted because it came to union terms after a strike last spring. With an enthusiasm which reminded observers of Philadelphia's election night spree and subsequent victory parade, thousands of clerks, teamsters, chauffeurs, bookkeepers and many an unorganized salesgirl, buyer, janitor and elevator operator walked out with the warehousemen. Around Gimbel's, Strawbridge & Clothier's, Lit's, N. Snellenburg's and Frank & Seder's marched mass picket lines with...