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...first official act last week Admiral Okada ordered opened up in the Premier's Official Residence the room in which "Old Fox" Inukai was done to death. Furnished in Japanese style, this room is covered with mats on which statesmen may squat as their forefathers did. Since the assassination squatting has been taboo, with Premier Saito using chairs and tables in the new style rooms of the Official Residence. Last week Premier Okada went enthusiastically back to squatting. He called back to their portfolios the outstanding members of the Saito Cabinet except famed Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi in whose department...
...Iraq- "Squat and thickset, with head disproportionately large, the woman stands holding her hands before her breast. She wears the traditional garment of sheepskin and her hair, gathered in a heavy roll, is confined by a fillet of lapis lazuli inlay. The eyes are of shell and lapis lazuli and the eyebrows are inlaid with bituminous paste." Thus did Dr. Charles Leonard Woolley report one of his latest finds. A popeyed, club-footed little figure of alabaster, 10 in. high, found in a soldier's grave with its head touching the blade of the warrior's bronze...
...House of Commons the chapel-like benches were so crowded that lanky Sir John Simon was forced to squat on the steps of the Speaker's dais. Rotund Tory Winston Churchill, fresh from his startling accusations against Lord Derby and Sir Samuel Hoare (see p. 16), was too late to find a seat on the Government side, and he was forced to cross the floor and perch on a few inches of cushion next to wild-eyed Laborite James Maxton whose hair is longer than Greta Garbo...
...squat Otto Langhanke was a window decorator in Quincy, Ill. Later he became a high-school German teacher and after that a chicken farmer. In 1917, he and his Portuguese wife moved to Chicago where their pretty 14-year-old daughter Lucille could take dancing and acting lessons to prepare for a career which might some day make them all comfortably rich...
...small Lucille Langhanke had ceased to exist. She had become Cinemactress Mary Astor. By 1925 she was leading lady for Douglas Fairbanks. Squat Otto Langhanke had long since retired from school-teaching and chicken-raising. He was a well-to-do Hollywood gentleman, accustomed to dressing in a cutaway. With his wife he lived in a $200,000 house equipped with a $15,000 swimming pool. Last week occurred a crucial development in the history of the Langhanke family. In Los Angeles, Otto Langhanke had given up his cutaway and was wearing what passed for rags when he asked...