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Next Herr Greiser, with the jerky motions of a Prussian drill sergeant, advanced upon "Tony" Eden, seized his hand, shook it vigorously, gave the Nazi salute with upraised arm individually to "Tony" and two other members of the Council, whirled on his heel and began to stalk out. Hearing snickers from the 80 journalists present, Nazi Greiser thumbed his nose at the press box. This evoked a mighty uproar which puzzled the Council because its members could not see the German's gesture but only his broad back. Up jumped the Manchester Guardian's Robert Dell, President...
...Florida last winter Heaton Treadway met some members of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman's Oxford Groups. Well aware of how those earnest evangelists stalk the upper classes in their native habitat, Manager Treadway discoursed on the advantages of the Berkshires. Result was that last fortnight Representative Treadway was saying: "I guess the movement is beneficial. All that I've heard of the Groups is interesting and sound." And in Heaton Hall, the Red Lion Inn and other hostelries in and around Stockbridge were gathered a "team" of 800 Oxford Groupers from all over the world, in whose...
With the Negus heading for parts unknown like Man O' War on the home stretch, the Italians have all but completed their Ethiopian conquest. Only the final overthrow of Addis Ababa remains before Mussolini can stalk into the League of Nations chambers and brag of a complete victory. Though most experts have doubted the economic value of the prize, no one can deny that the rout of the Emperer has cut away the last prop from the tottering statecraft of Geneva...
...their waning strength, one is reminded of nothing so much as that autumn day in 1918 when Kaiser Wilhelm threw up the sponge and took the next train for Holland. The rules of our country are-abdicating their thrones with distressingly little thought of what anarchy is to stalk abroad when the firm hand that has been our guide for so long has vanished...
...dollars on a marble palace only to have even one Supreme Court Justice feel dwarfed and impotent in it. Or perhaps Justice Stone, chafing at the oblivion of a minority opinion, has purposely prepared a bitter brew for his colleagues. At any rate he has caused a ghost to stalk through the pillared halls of the Supreme Court, but it is hoped that the phantom will haunt no one but Justice Stone himself...