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Observers recalled that the present, sumptuous U. S. Ambassadorial Residence at No. 2, Avenue d'lena, Paris, was purchased and bestowed upon the State Department by the present U. S. Ambassador to France, famed Clevelander Myron Timothy Herrick...
...Lord's sumptuous private train rushed toward Manchuria, preceded and followed by grim armored pilot trains, he knew that only an attack by enemy spies or some supreme treachery among his followers could deprive him of life or his great wealth. The unexpected and improbable occurred when two Nationalist spies were able to intercept Chang's train with shrewdly tossed bombs, which smashed three railway cars, but injured the War Lord very slightly, according to despatches...
Because Prince Tokugawa's philanthropy is greater even than his great wealth the grounds and exteriors of his numerous palaces are habitually in disrepair, but within all is sumptuous, as befits the great patron of the arts who founded Japan's first symphony orchestra...
...TIME, Jan. 23 et seq.) which has taken him on state visits to Rome, Paris, Berlin, London and several smaller Capitals. Last week the royal party, including Crown Prince Rhamatullah Khan and highest dignitaries of the Afghan State plunged from the Polish border into Russia aboard a new and sumptuous Soviet special train of 14 salon cars. The plunge was momentous because King Amanullah, whose Realm lies between India and Russia (see Map), holds the balance of power in Middle Asia betwixt the British Empire and the Soviet Union. He has just learned secretly at London how much Great Britain...
...know that Comrade Kalinin is but a willing and placid figurehead, who serves to mask the activities of seclusive Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin. Characteristically the seldom-or-never-seen Dictator kept himself within the thick-walled Kremlin, last week, while the Royal Afghans were lodged just outside, in a sumptuous marble palace overlooking the Moskva River. Soviet press censors would take care that no word of secret conferences between King and Dictator should leak out until favorable results could be reported...