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...quantity of tin track...
...sued for breach of promise. The case was instantly quashed in the courts, and Mannequin Royle was fined costs of court. Last week Viscount Kingsborough struck back in turn. In Miss Royle's apartment it had been His Lordship's pleasure to play with model trains and tin soldiers. These and other personal articles he wanted returned...
Like a divine enticement the sky ceased its outburst and lightened. Slowly the streets filled with a mob that increased its frantic, clamorous pace as it turned into Boylston Street and surged over the bridge. Above the turmoil hawkers cried about their display of feathers and tin footballs; the Salvation Army pleaded, and the ticket takers shouted a monotonous command...
...London Times were driven to the secret headquarters of General Matsui. They found muddy water an inch deep in the hall of the Commander-in-Chief's commandeered headquarters, paper pasted over the broken panes of his windows, water leaking through the roof and pattering loudly into tin pans. It was impossible to talk in comfort until deft Japanese orderlies had placed towels in the bottoms of the tin pans to deaden the noise. Then long-eared General Matsui fell to reminiscing about what a help he was to Dr. Sun Yat-sen and in general how Japan...
Safe from possible front line duty to attend the prisoner as his lawyer was Lieutenant the Marques del Merito, a grandee of Spain, whose wife is a daughter of the Tin-King Bolivian Minister to Paris. Socialite Captain Espinosa acted as prosecutor. As judges, a Colonel Frederico Acosta and four captains sat behind their swords at a long table: Defendant Dahl wore a new suit for the occasion, brought to him by his attorney's Bolivian wife. Testimony of the defense centred on the fact that Flyer Dahl believed that he was to be merely an instructor...