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...welkin rang in proverbial style at Gerry's Landing up the Charles yesterday evening as final preparations for the tornadic CRIMSON-Lampoon regatta, scheduled for 2.30 o'clock this afternoon, were completed. Merwomen prinked, pollywogs warbled, as two specially designed Gloucester herring chasers were launched with solomn rites on the star-flecked upper reaches of the local stream...
...Geneva and Berlin. President von Hindenburg sent several. Sick-abed German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann sent his confidential secretary flying to Hermann Müller. Plainly, official Germany was amazed, staggered. But Aristide Briand repeated that now wou'J be a good time to negotiate, now while the welkin rang wit!: SCHWEINEHUND...
Stores were the first to be closed, and then by a little judicious use of his authority and skillful tactics a traffic tangle was created that made the Westwood welkin resound with horns for the rest of the day. An ice cream truck soon had its cargo disappear down the gutters. A wedding party was held up and only escaped after two hours delay. So confident in his success did Mr. Meyer become that he did not hesitate to give his wife a summons for Sunday driving. Before the irate Justice was placated the police force...
While the journalistic welkin rings with the praise of long-distance flyers, the rank and file of aviation moves slowly along. Several years ago at Harvard a Flying Club, with no stronger interest among its members than a common faith in the future of flying, languished and died. Now with a plane of its own to operate the club has a year of definite achievement to its credit...
...Reichstag welkin rang last week with probably the most concerted denunciation of the Dawes Plan yet heard within its walls. Deputies representing every German political faction spoke in well nigh unanimous agreement for something over a half day, amid repeated applause from all over the House. No Cabinet member took part in the debate, but Deputy Friedrich Dessauer, speaking for the Centrist party of Chancellor (Prime Minister) Wilhelm Marx, was considered to have voiced the opinion of the government when he said...