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...time, when the famous churchman was writing for a London paper, a friend asked him: "Shall I address you as a pillar of the Church of England, or as two columns of the Evening Standard?" This story, we are told, is the very life and breath of the swank wine parties of the Colleges at the moment...
...lunatic without lucid intervals, so that he is not capable of the government of himself or the management of his estate." A radio actor named Drexel Biddle Steele said he was "giving a small supper party-only about 30 persons," for Claire Delmar, Swiss actress, in Los Angeles' swank Embassy Club, when belligerent Peter Arno, sexy cartoonist of the New Yorker, entered the club with Film Actress Sally O'Neil. Cartoonist Arno, who two years ago was chased across the landscape of Reno, Nev. by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. with an unloaded pistol, was introduced to Miss Delmar, became...
...opportunity to rush straight to President von Hindenburg, obtain dictatorial powers on the plea of national emergency and proceed to suppress first the Communist Party and later all others except his own? In Berlin last week General Göring, famed for his dashing appearances at Nazi rallies in swank uniforms created by himself, chose to appear before the Supreme Court in the unadorned brown of a simple Storm Trooper, escorted however by six German officers in sky-blue uniforms with gleaming, clinking swords. For the occasion police guards were doubled. Into the gallery jammed Berlin's diplomatic corps...
...Turkish Three-Year Plan (see below) launched by swank little Premier Ismet Pasha...
...Eckener spent the day in Chicago, visited the Fair, received a dinner in his honor at the swank Union League Club where German Ambassador Hans Luther loudly flayed critics of Hitler. Before re turning to Akron to pilot his Graf home to Friedrichshafen via Seville, he had a ride in the three-wheeled, streamlined Dymaxion automobile which Gulf Refining Co. had been driving around Chicago for publicity. Luckily for him, he did not ride at the same time as two of his Graf passengers, Col. William Francis Forbes-Sempill. Master of Sempill, British soldier and flyer; and Charles Dolfuss, attache...