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...Reichsführer stayed snug in his Bavarian mountain retreat. Such is popular ignorance under the Nazi system of "guided news," that in Berlin crowds gathered every day outside the Realmleader's office in Wilhelmstrasse, shouting plaintively from time to time, "Leader, dear Leader, come out to us!" Stolid police saw no reason why they should explain that the Dear Leader was some 400 miles away. Exultant Berlin papers hailed him as the greatest vote-getter of all time, far greater than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Now the world could no longer scoff, Germans exulted, at German election figures. Under...
Frans Hals, born in Antwerp about 1584, was 20 years older than the great Rembrandt van Rijn whom he scarcely knew. He married twice, produced 14 children and a mass of canvases, but had on the whole, almost as dull an existence as the stolid, rich little city of Haarlem in which he spent most of his life. His talent was early recognized. He worked very hard, made a great deal of money, kept little of it. Because of his fondness for painting guzzling guitar players, beery burghers, laughing children, biographers have endeavored to make the domestic hard-working Frans...
...within the Saar from voters' homes to the place where they resided when the Treaty of Versailles was signed; and in salaries to 860 neutral poll watchers who were paid about $65 each for their services on the voting day, cheap at the price since they included 360 stolid, super-meticulous Dutch burgomasters. The troops supplied by Britain, Italy, The Netherlands and Sweden charged for their services only a sum representing the difference between what it would have cost to maintain them at home and the cost of transporting them to the Saar, maintaining them there...
Last week in the little old court house at Flemington, N. J., Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh sat in the same row, four places away from Bruno Richard Hauptmann when that stolid German ex-convict went on trial for killing the flyer's first-born son and namesake. At the conclusion of the first week of a life & death contest it could not be said that honors between prosecution and defense were even, for the prosecution had produced a half-dozen damaging surprises and the defense had not had its innings. But in the matter of the four women...
...Kabelac, who seemed the sprucer, less bashful of the two, spoke right up: "I'd be glad to marry her if Mrs. Stull says it's all right." Stolid Mr. Miller tried to look at ease. It took the Countess only a jiffy to pick Mr. Kabelac...