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...hectic half hour furious fusillades swept over the soggy turf of the baseball diamond, the tit-tat-tat of the spitting machine gun sneering at the consistent popping of the rifles. Scouts, grenade dischargers, and wire cutters mingled in the heat of the fray, and many a sailor showed the potential ability of a movie actor by "biting the dust" with a consumate reality of the battle scenes in "What Price Glory." Little pin points of fire from blank shells glowed through the murkiness of the medical men ran about trantically with empty stretchers. All the ghastliness of bloody battle...
...backed up and carried away tons of papers. Desks and strongboxes were rifled; but the two large safes in the basement proved too much for the police. Soon workmen with safeblowing apparatus arrived. Pneumatic drills were featured in their technique, and all the next day a purring t-t-tat-tat-tat-t-t was heard in Moorgate street. Finally the safes were burst open, more trucks backed up, more papers were trundled away...
...Tell the Wife (Irene Rich, Huntley Gordon). The idea of a wife giving her errant husband tit for tat by holding hands with an old friend of the family, is simply immortal. The "variation" here introduced is to have another old friend of the family perform two marriage ceremonies which only he and the audience know are faked. Then comes the excruciating suspense while pajamas are unpacked and coverlets turned down. Whoso remembers a strip called The Marriage Circle has known this picture in a previous and superior incarnation. When U. S. counter-jumpers try to be Europeans, not even...
...coup d' état by General Petala and other Fascist Army leaders to seat the abdicated Crown Prince Carol on the throne. As their Royal Majesties drove off down the Boulevard Dinicu-Golescu and proceeded by the Sosea Cotroceni to the Palais de Cotroceni the correspondents scattered through Bucharest determined to learn the real political situation...
...Nicaraguan isthmus which was purchased by the U. S. during the Taft Administration (1913). Throughout the past decade successive U. S. Administrations, of whatever party, have kept a detachment of Marines in Nicaragua until last year, when their withdrawal was followed immediately by the coup d' état of General Chamorro. The Nicaraguan Administrations upheld by the U. S. have apparently been obnoxious to a majority of Nicaraguans, but in upholding one more such regime Secretary Kellogg is only following scrupulously a well established U. S. tradition. The incidental question of abstract "right" faded years ago from the realm...