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...visits the Spanish Court, it is considered a special mark of Royal favor if he is tricked into sitting on the squirt-bench...
...squirt-bench is not in Madrid, but in the royal gardens of the Alcazar, a Moorish palace in Seville where the court seldom resides except during Seville's famed "Easter Week," an occasion of surpassing splendor. Indeed the squirt-bench had not been used until last week since Edward of Wales visited Seville (TIME, May 30, 1927). The long intervals between the times King Alfonso plays his favorite prac- tical joke keep other Royalties comparatively ignorant that the squirt-bench exists. Ignorant last week was Prince Aymon Robert Marguerite Marie Joseph Turin, Duke of Spoleto, 30, reputed suitor...
Citizen Alfred Emanuel Smith and friends were occupying the penthouse on Palm Beach's Whitehall Hotel (home of the late Henry M. Flagler). Mornings he went to the Breakers Hotel beach to swim in the ocean. His figure in a bathing suit, his startling ability to squirt a stream of Atlantic water through his front teeth several feet into the air while he floated on his back stirred the interest of fashionable folk. Afternoons he played golf at the Everglades club with John Jacob Raskob...
...trees have been cut down. Fruit has been destroyed. In infested areas, no new crops can be planted. No fruits can be exported from any part of Florida without the most rigid inspection. Even motorists, driving through the infested districts, are stopped at county borders while busy officials squirt insecticide over cars, coats, baggage. Even personal luggage is opened and the contents liberally squirted. To a protesting motorist, one official remarked: "Well, lady, we have $4,000,000 to spend and we got to do something with...
...Hallisey hated Jack Casey. They had been glaring at each other for days. There was going to be a fight. And when, in Prof. Carl C. Wheaton's junior law class, Hallisey got up to open a window, Casey told him not to. With eyes no bigger than squirt-holes in the snow, Hallisey edged up to Casey, dragging one foot behind the other. "Lead at me," he said, "Lead-you funny fellow." He was uttering words never before heard in the law class of Prof. Carl C. Wheaton. Casey led. His fist flicked Hallisey's jaw, knocking...