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...penitent last week was Dr. Eduard Benes, "Smartest Little Statesman in Europe," perpetual Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia. Dr. Benes had said, "Bombardment from the air is barbarous and inhuman." Sir John Simon pointed out that British planes often find it necessary to bomb rebellious tribesmen. Dr. Benes promptly ate humble pie, exclaiming, "Of course British flyers have never been guilty of barbarous actions...
...blistering morning last week some 1,000 employes of the Chevy Chase and Chestnut Farms dairies, their wives, children and sweethearts crowded gaily aboard the steamer Charles Macalester and set off down the Potomac from Washington for an outing. Soon after noon they went ashore at Marshall Hall, ate a luncheon of ham and cheese sandwiches, potato salad, deviled eggs, milk, tea, watermelon, ice cream & cake. Two hours later a child collapsed. Parents warned their children to keep out of the sun. Then men & women began to feel ill. Directors of the picnic mustered most of them aboard the steamer...
...time. Lesser priests put on the "Juzu" (sacred beads representing the followers of Buddha), rang gongs, burned incense, read from the scriptures on each side of the gilt altar, decorated with pink, white and green cakes and many flowers. When religious matters were disposed of, the 400 convened Buddhists ate of Japanese victuals and, like their Christian brothers in convention, romped politely...
...bush in search of water and friendly natives, later drank the contents of the plane's radiator. On several occasions they plodded miles to what they thought was a signal fire, arrived exhausted to find an unattended bush fire. They "caught lizards on the rocks, which we ate raven ously." They fashioned a raft from one of their seaplane floats, paddled for five days in a rough sea, saw a steamer pass within a mile of them. Hunger drove them again ashore, to feed on snails and leaves. On the 38th day "to our great excitement we sighted...
Juno Marin, twice married, has landed in the sanitarium after running the gamut of a gay society in which people ate to live, lived to drink and drank to forget living. In the first flush of their romance Vondorn takes up drinking again, and with that his tale is as good as told. How he and Juno run off to live and decay together in a hut in the desert, how Vondorn slaves at his book, how he visits the nearby Beldoro Observatory, prepares to take up residence with Juno there, is only the long prelude to the ultimate cough...