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Cash and securities were first packed in trunks in the old bank vaults, sealed and delivered to the express company, which placed them in armored cars bristling with artillery of various calibres and delivered them at the new building. About one hundred trips of this sort were necessary before the...
Died. Archduchess Marie Valerie, 56, in Castle Wallsee, Austria. She, the favorite daughter of the late Emperor Franz Josef, was the only poetess of the Habsburg family. To the tree-trunks in his park and woods the Emperor had her verses affixed so that he could see them when he...
One last bugle note sounded in Colombes Stadium; a cannon boomed; down came the broad, embroidered Olympic standard from its masthead. Officials had gathered, had distributed prizes, had declared the Eighth Olympiad at an end. Tag-end events were won as follows : Weightlifting, Italy; yachting, Norway; equestrian sports, Sweden; cycling...
Assembled upon this field of sad memories were half a million souls. Red officers and soldiers in many uniforms; workers in white and blue blouses; Communist athletes, male and female, the former naked except for a pair of trunks, the latter clothed in white shirts and short blue knickers; English...
Since Proctor was clad only in a pair of blue running trunks and a white jersey, police scout the theory that he might have landed and gone away. Up to a late hour Monday night, college authorities held out the hope that Proctor had landed and gone to the Harvard...