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...factory, to see that armament was not being amassed contrary to the Treaty of Versailles. While the so potent officers have been motoring up and down the land, their headquarters, the Inter-Allied Military Control Commission at Berlin, has hummed with the click of typewriters, and reverberated to the tread of generals. All this has cost Germans a pretty penny? $15,000,000 in money and much in wounded pride. It was swept away last week. And one of the Allied officers, an Italian, who could not bear to give up the dignity and consequence he had enjoyed for seven...
...placed it on the funeral car. . . . At dawn, the Emperor was entombed in a cement vault set into a hill overlooking Fujiyama, beloved and sacred mountain of Japan. Workmen at once began to heap up an immense tumulus over the vault; and since no human foot is allowed to tread above an Emperor, the workmen had to be "purified" by a peculiar rite. After this rite they become officially "no longer men, but white winged birds which fly with earth and sand in their beaks" to complete the tumulus...
Laughing, eager, the crowd surged forward, everyone anxious to be among the first to tread the final section of the boulevard begun under Napoleon III by his great Prefect of the Seine, Baron Haussmann, just 70 years ago. The new sector, only a few dozen yards long, at last connects the Boulevard Haussmann with the Grands Boulevards, and makes a single magnificent thoroughfare, stretching continuously from the Place de la République to the Place de 1'Etoile...
...spirit of the early eighteenth-century Italian comedy will tread the boards of Brattle Hall on the evenings of December 6, 7, and 8, when the Dramatic Club will present "The Orange Comedy," an adaptation by Gilbert Seldes '14 from a comedy of Carlo Gozzi...
...bore, poppet-valve engine of 15 horsepower on a 4% in. stroke. Their wheelbase is that of the Ford and Chevrolet, 100 in. The overall height is 5 ft., 8 in. with a low centre of gravity due to an 8% in. axle-clearance and the standard 56 in. tread. Tiny balloon tires, smaller even than Ford balloons, have been furnished by Fisk...