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In Taormaina: A jug of wine, a book, a slender Italian youth under a cypress tree eating spaghetti . . . . This notice in a postoffice: "Young, smart, pretty Italian man who speaks a good English, would like to follow a nice woman around Italy" . . . . A sleepy donkey pulling a colorful cart laden...

Author: By Christopher Janus, | Title: Tbe Oxford Letter | 5/21/1937 | See Source »

In any case the University has an exemplary fire record. Taking last year as an example, reports include one blaze of the Kirkland House dining hall awning, several bonfires in the streets, and a smudge fire in the Advocate Building. This last promised to be a real conflagration, as the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Alarm Boxes, Sprinklers, Janitors, and Telephones Protect University Against Blazes | 11/17/1936 | See Source »

Six bombs from a trimotored monoplane of unknown nationality flying above The High Seas 38 miles off the coast of Spain last week were loosed upon the U. S. destroyer Kane which was flying the Stars & Stripes at her mainmast and had an enormous U. S. flag spread flat on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HIGH SEAS: Six Bombs, Nine Rounds | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

Fire almost completely demolished the large awning over the Kirkland House dining room piazza last night about 10.15 o'clock. A hastily organized bucket brigade from the House at first tried to cope with it by pouring pails of water over the awning, but when the blaze appeared to be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT LAST, A REAL BLAZE | 6/5/1936 | See Source »

A bug-eyed crowd of Egyptians lined the quayside at Suez last week as the British cruiser Enterprise passed through. Several dozen dejected Ethiopians could be seen under the quarter-deck awning, but among them was not the bearded, tiny figure all eyes sought. Haile Selassie, Conquered Lion of Judah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Courage and Hope | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

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