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...found no bandits in them. Troop movements were hindered a good deal by the fact that the expeditionary force of 800 gendarmes was accompanied by an additional force of about 200 French, British, U. S., Italian and Spanish reporters who tipped off the natives unwittingly, drank up all the beer and asked so many questions that General Fournier found it impossible to concentrate. The air of Ajaccio, the air that fed the genius of the young Napoleon, gave General Fournier an idea or two. He ordered two gross of tricolored arm bands, drew up the 200 reporters in the public...
...where is there a Boston Nugget, where will you find, brisk, boisterous, debonair academicians clad in comfortable corduroys and sweaters? Where will you get our hill-winds and our mountain air, our Appalachian snows, and Alpine sports? With all due gratitude for hospitality received, we choose Hanover. The beer is better for one thing. And the Brahmins of Boston don't get in your hair. The Dartmouth...
...Manhattan, a bottle of near-beer exploded in the face of Victor Vernon, blinded him. A year later Victor Vernon heard that his son had been arrested in a stolen car, fell to the floor in a faint. When he came to he had recovered his sight. But Victor Vernon was not happy because while he was blind he had received $75 a month from the city...
...that the plot may prove thrilling even to those who have read the book. The direction, typically Continental, is particularly Teutonic in its effort for detailed correctness of setting and costume--even the windows of the bar where the hero imbibes are lettered in appropriate Russian for beer, tea, and coffee. But it seems unnecessary to stress such perfection of immaterial details, especially as the characters do talk German and not Russian...
Should the Legion have its beer, it would not whine about holidays. Harvard, too, would rejoice at Saturday freedom, despite mutterings of the Overseers. Perhaps Curley's calendar distortions would make a subject for a Cambridge mayoralty issue. That Curley could slip through the job is certain. He would not have to search far into his administration to find some one who is adept at the necessary juggling of figures...