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...motion of censure was snowed under by 214 Kemalist votes, but on thinking the whole matter over Dictator Kemal must have wondered whether the idea of even a ten-deputy opposition was such a good one after all. In Turkey the will of the dictator is communicated by means wondrous, swift and silent. Those who cross it are sometimes found hanged to their own doorposts at dawn. Bright and early on the morn after the vote, Leader Fethi called upon "The Modernizer," informed him that overnight the opposition party had dissolved...
Recently Tutankhamen, "handsomest of the Pharaohs," has enjoyed a glory, almost a fad, that is far more than his due. The wondrous relics found in his tomb far outshine the history of his political achievements. Mile. Tabouis, learned, impassioned, recites that history, conjures up its sociological, scientific and commercial background. But the illustrations in her book are only added testimony that this mighty man would be forgotten were it not for the glittering chrysalis of stone and metal in which he lived...
Speedier trans-Atlantic service by air and water will work wondrous, though as yet unpredictable, changes in the future. We may be sure, however, that customers, one of the other, the "Unite States of Europe" and the United State of America will always have mutual interests that are beyond the power of political partisanship to injure in any permanent...
Says von Falkenberg: "Improving each week. In fact there has been less use of that 'tycoon,' for I, like the wondrous monk of Siberia got weary and weary and wearier...
Christian Keener ("Red") Cagle, All-American football halfback last year and captain-elect of this year's Army eleven, went to Manhattan last week with a group of fellow cadets on an "educational trip." ' Official goal: American Museum of Natural History, wondrous home of dried marvels. After that the West Pointers had freedom until 11:45 p. m. Hero Cagle broke away, accompanied by a cadet assigned to guard him. Eluding the guard, he rushed into the foggy night, arrived in West Point several hours late. Punishment (his second within three months for the same offense); six demerits...