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...vastness of the ocean tract, the force of the one vessel on the conduct of the other, caused the Vagabond to muse further on the underlying principles of the occurrence. What rules to govern the vessels of the seven seas? How determine the rights of yonder tramp steamer standing out to the Shoals? The bookcase resumed its original form again to answer these questions, and the Vagabond stared on, until from a maze of crimson jackets and calfskin bindings the words came out--Mare Liberum, Grotius...
...financial. It was planned, for the time being, that each paper should continue to operate independently with no staff changes. Reported exchange of stock: two News shares for one share of Plain Dealer. The News, undistinguished as to format but published in a fine plant, has been called "the tramp that lives in a palace...
...Rivera and of exiled King Alfonso, whom he faintly, fatly resembles. "Just the time for a coup d'état," he chuckled to himself as he sped south from Madrid one torrid night. Next day Sevillanos on their way to lunch heard the clatter of hoofs, the tramp of feet, much blowing of bugles in the broad Plaza de Espana. There they found General Sanjurjo on horseback before the city hall. Behind him was a column of Civil Guards, infantry and medical corps. From his pocket the general withdrew a piece of paper, unfolded it, read: "I, Jose Sanjurjo...
...Actress Billie Burke at a masquerade party with Somerset Maugham. Ziegfeld was dressed as a tramp. He rushed home, changed to full dress, sprayed himself with perfume. Actress Burke liked the perfume. He courted her quietly, with Grant's Tomb their usual rendezvous. On the day that Lefty Louis, one of the murderers of Herman Rosenthal, was executed, alert newsmen discovered that Showman Ziegfeld had married Actress Burke in Hoboken. They shared the front page with Lefty Louis...
...alive. So lively are they, so picturesque is the Balkan political turmoil in which they agitate, that most readers will be more interested in their daily doings than in discovering which one of them murdered the two American boys. Just out of college, the boys were taking an innocent tramp through Europe, landed up by chance in Trapani, capital of Corisco. Things were buzzing in that queer town. Former Minister Karadagh, recently released from jail, was plotting to depose the sinister fat eunuch, Taabor Pasha, Corisco's highly oriental Prime Minister. French Financier Martignac was making negotiations concerning...