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Five days later two human legs were found under the seat of a train arriving at Waterloo Station and Scotland Yard was off on a fresh mystery. The Waterloo legs, according to Sir Bernard Spilsbury, are male...
After these squelching words, the Person-Of-The-King majestically stalked out and the Legislature, as prearranged, chose South Waterloo's affable Norman O. Hipel to be "Mr. Speaker." Conducted to the steps of the Throne, Mr. Hipel gave thanks, then stepped out to don the Speaker's black robe and tricorn hat, after which he returned to stand at one side of the Throne. With everyone at attention, back came the Person-Of-The-King, in gold-laced jacket and with jeweled sword, to read the Speech from the Throne-written of course by "Mitch" & Cabinet...
Born in small Waterloo, Ont. and raised in Michigan, Isaiah Bowman got a B. S. at Harvard in three years, a Ph. D. at Yale in three more. Every few years after that he was off to South America, teaching at Yale between expeditions. In 1915 the American Geographical Society called him to Manhattan as its director. The yarn-swappers of the Explorers' Club came to know him as a vigorous organizer who raised $350,000 to finish a large-scale map of Hispanic America. In 1931 he was elected president of the International Geographical Union...
Death is the final curtain to every man's performance, but sometimes it would be more decent, more dramatic to ring it down beforehand. The applause for Napoleon's last bow was at Waterloo, not on St. Helena. But the story of Napoleon's slow fattening for death, anti-climactic though it seems to his career, is a tragi-comedy in itself. Author "Wilson Wright" (William Reitzel) has made the most of it, re-stirring the teacup-tempest with an impartial spoon. From contemporary, controversial accounts of Napoleon's dying days he has pieced together...
...history is eminently sound. The only error made by George Arliss was in choosing two who performed on the same world stage about the same time. In The House of Rothschild (in which Wellington was impersonated by C. Aubrey Smith), Actor Arliss suggested to cinema audiences that Waterloo was a minor crisis in the affairs of a Jewish financier. In The Iron Duke, though Rothschild does not appear at all, Arliss' invariable mannerisms are so reminiscent that it seems strange when he orders his cavalry to charge instead of trying to arrange a merger. Whatever the effect...