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...Snatch" last week was sitting up in bed at Shanghai, surrounded by flowers, cablegrams and congratulatory letters. His doctors permitted him to walk about his room and receive visitors. A warship waited to take Sir Hughe to a swank resort in The Netherlands East Indies for final convalescence-and still the Japanese Government, far from having made the "fullest redress" demanded by the British Government, had not yet officially replied to London's charge that it was a Japanese war plane which suddenly swooped down on the Ambassador's car and shot "Snatch...
...Last week, the firemen of Boise, Idaho did so. Roused a few minutes after 3 a.m. by a newsboy who had noticed a pile of straw burning in a corral, firemen raced to the scene, found flames licking at a barn belonging to the Myron Jacobs Riding Academy, where swank Boiseans stable their horses. The Riding Academy is 25 ft. outside Boise's city limits. A city ordinance forbids the fire department to fight fires outside Boise, and firemen injured doing so get no compensation. Boise's firemen last week promptly decided to take no chances. Instead...
...office are built, Airport No. 2 will be quadrupled in size and second to none in the U. S. in equipment. Four runways from 3,650 to 4,770 ft. each 150 ft. wide, will accommodate the largest transports; fog-free Flushing Bay, lined with eight monster hangars and swank administration and service buildings will be ready to receive seaplanes from Bermuda and Europe...
Last week a troupe billed as Big Apple champions from the South appeared in Manhattan at the Roxy Theatre. The swank Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Center unbent to stage Big Apple exhibitions under the direction of Dancing Teacher...
...decide whether a two-and-a-half inch bandage is better than a three-inch. With his last ?600 he bought a down-&-out practice in London, found after months of struggle that he had a charming bedside manner, settled down to make a fat living in the swank West End by flattery, worthless capsules, clothes made in Conduit Street...