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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parody on very serious matters." Therefore, let there be no more beauty contests. The "parody on serious matters" phrase was merely fresh evidence of how jealously Fascist Italy guards the dignity of State pomps and ceremonies. Correspondents in Rome learned other more practical reasons for the new prohibition. After two years of competing in these strange international competitions, it has been noticed that Italy invariably loses. Any competition in which Italy loses is not one to be encouraged by the Fascist State. "Foreigners might get the impression," explained a Blackshirt chieftain gravely, "that there are no pretty girls in Italy...
Hair-pulling, face-scratching, back-biting?such effeminate methods of settling an argument are not for the dashing beauties of the Danube. At dawn last week two Budapest ballet dancers, Mary Radvanny and Sussanne Winghardy, rivals for the favor of a stalwart young Budapestian, repaired to a clearing in a secluded wood near the city. A friend went with them, carrying a long green baize bag. Soon the clearing echoed with the harsh scrape of steel, the clear ring of blade ion cup hilt. The enraged beauties engaged in no vapid stabbing of the air. Like most able dancers, they...
...rebels-firing them from cannon, killing them on the streets- Amanullah's followers continued to desert him in a steady stream. Last week, accompanied by his "beautiful" wife, Queen Thuraya, and his prodigiously fat Brother Inayatullah and his wife, he fled precipitately over the Indian border. At Bombay, two ambulances stood chugging expectantly at the station. Amanullah, in civilized trousers, looked worried. He was about to become a father for the seventh time. Inayatullah was expecting, too, for the fourteenth time. But the expected did not happen. The two ladies reached the Taj Mahal Hotel without...
...really meant nothing of the kind. The so-called Hoover Solution awarding Arica and its nitrates to Chile, and the twin mining province of Tacna to Peru, with a six-million-dollar payment by Chile to Peru to boot-all this had been virtually agreed upon by the two countries prior to President Hoover's interest in the problem or Ambassador Moore's arrival on the scene. The ambassadorial smile in the picture was purely ambassadorial. Why he wanted to go to little Peru after lordly Spain remained a mystery and a secret, except to a few well...
...Such unaccustomed calm had descended upon Mexico City last week that 7,000 students of the University of Mexico were able to attract attention by a riot, in protest against monthly examinations, in which only two bystanders were shot...