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...home, and the inhabitants of this most average of cities than selected their average citizen. One wonders what convulsions seized the place how lar the average men departed from their normaley, dressing themselves and their households in Indian costumes or resigning from all their lodges in order to avoid being singled out for national, and unaverage ame, and how one of their number was unkindly taken unawares...
...representatives, pending international prohibition, for alcohol and drinking are all about them and they should be removed from contamination. In going about Munich it would be necessary for Consul General Curtis to do a perpetual zigzag in dodging from one side of the street to the other to avoid proximity to the Hofbrau, the Kunstlerhaus, the Ratskeller and even the Staats Oper where villainous beer is imbibed without a permit from Mansfield...
Then the naval mutinies broke out in the south of France (TIME, Oct. 10) and the voice of the French press grew louder. The Government, earnestly desiring to avoid a row, according to Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, was last week compelled by force of public opinion to demand unequivocally the recall of Soviet Ambassador Rakovsky from France...
...Clark belongs to that group of artists who have trained themselves. Born in 1896 at Missonia, Montana, he studied for a short time only at the Chicago Institute. Perhaps it was his technical facility which gave him the assurance to avoid Europe with its classic, or modern traditions, and to seek a new style under oriental influence. In the East he joined the second Fogg Museum expedition to Tum Huang and Wan Fo Rsia in westernmost China. This gave him an opportunity to observe the magnificence of the early art of China. His other voyages in the East speak...
Superintendent McAndrew might avoid dull afternoons in court by simply resigning. This he refused to do. Said he: "They'll fire me all right. But they'll have to stage a burlesque show...