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...once. He packed the one brown suitcase that is supposed to be sufficient for Sandroyd boys, put on his belted overcoat and his school cap, got into the car. At the Ritz "Granny," Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, was waiting for him. Looking even more dramatic than usual, she wept a great deal, but would say nothing beyond the fact that there had been ''an accident, my God, a terrible accident." There was a whispered conference among the grownups, and they took away Peter's school cap. Faithful Mr. Parrott came back in a little while with...
...Eliot and Bulwer-Lytton which lined the walls of the little oak room where he read the Bible every morning and to which was brought his 10 o'clock glass of milk. While Auctioneer William Henry Jones grew hoarse trying to get better prices and Housekeeper Catherine Viles wept salty tears of sadness, bidders and gapers were able to glean from the house's elaborate furnishings how pious Lumberman Long liked to spend his days. At the foot of a marble and bronze stairway was a red plush and Gobelin tapestry sofa (sold to Harry Jacobs...
...recent assassinations in Marseilles are being received by the American press. It appears that the main object of interest with regard to this terrible affair is the story of the Boy-King Peter and how he received the news of his father's death, or how the Queen wept over her husband's corpse. It is strange also that, in a country so democratically minded, interest should be concentrated on glorifying the career of a somewhat doubtful Balkan Monarch to the exclusion of any concern at the calamity which has befallen Europe in the death of one of France...
...freedom, which the new land heralded, they found denied?to them and to their children. Still they laughed, and wept, and sang, while through the South the cotton fields bloomed white beneath their patient labor. And then, amid the clamor of the guns, a voice proclaiming Freedom, and the chains fell off and a light flooded over them?free?free...
...plane's tail, sent him whirling and whining 2,000 ft. to death on a tenement roof. Fong, his propeller shattered, glided two miles to a vacant lot in Queens, stubbed his landing gear in a ditch, turned over, broke his arm. In a Brooklyn morgue that day wept Wong's white, U. S.-born wife...