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Announcer: "I am sorry, ladies and gentlemen; I thought it was Emilie on top of the wash bowl. But all the quintuplets can talk at the bright age of three. Now the girls dress and troop out to breakfast...
...Delaware General Assembly stopped the clock and stayed in session all night to finish up its year's work. Only break in a boisterous evening, typical of the closing hours of many a State Legislature, was a recess taken at 4 a.m. so that members could troop down through the deserted streets of Delaware's tiny capital (Dover) to see one of their number off on a late train to Manhattan. Next morning everyone slept late, went home happy that the session was over...
...until three days before the Coronation will Canada's most popular delegation, a troop of 34 scarlet-coated "Mounties," reach London, a fact that kept War Office underlings in a state of jitters for weeks. To Major General Sir James H. MacBrien, commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, they cabled anxiously that the men come sooner to get their horses accustomed to cheering crowds. General MacBrien cabled back that the horses were being made crowdwise at Rockliffe Barracks near Ottawa...
They drove to the White House behind a troop of cavalry and were welcomed by President & Mrs. Roosevelt in the White House portico. They had an official reception in the Blue Room, tea in the Red Room, an unofficial dinner...
...Rightist troop morale in southern Spain, according to the Leftists, was ebbing, partly because of military factors but even more because Rightists were being tempted by every means of expert Leftist propaganda to drop their rifles, come on over and share Spain. Leaflets dropped from airplanes and shot over no-man's land in Leftist skyrockets read: "Brothers, among us everyone owns everything in Spain collectively! The proof is that every man behind our lines gets all the land he can till free. Is that true behind your lines? We promise 'Bread, Land and Liberty...