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...King smiles resignedly at the debutante princess after failing to kiss Kathie. There's the real tragedy. . . Fortunately, very amusing comedy is alternated with those strenuous and unnerving bursts of passion and the whole is carried along by music of exceptional charm. If American colleges could have beer-rallies and bellow tunes like the rousing Drinking Song, it would be worth it to give up the pose of indifference...
...industries are near and plentiful. But it is to the gangs of the Bad Lands that Cicero owes its headline glamor. Up and down its streets, fiery Sicilians and raucous Irishmen playfully squirt machine guns at each other. On other days they go zooming into Chicago with truckloads of beer. And then, when the day's labors are done, they have their 60 "soft drink parlors," their brothels, and their roulette wheels. The Bad Lands have their king, "Scarface Al" Caponi, alias "Al-phonzo Brown," who has been on the throne since 1922. Never since the days...
...France what they described as "the bribe of Thoiry." Perhaps the cleverest diplomat in Europe, he participated at a farewell "bierabend" tendered him by the German colony at Geneva, before he returned from Thoiry to Berlin. Surrounded by convivial friends - devotees of Gambrinus, the legendary inventor of beer-Gustav Stresemann purposely became "indiscreet." ; He "talked a bit." He exulted at the forthcoming liberation of the Rhineland. He cried that the stain of War guilt had been wiped from Germany by her admission into the League (TIME, Sept. 20). Thus he won a measure of approbation from German Nationalists...
Arrived at Assen the troops rushed for their foamy "marching draught." All too soon this cooling ration disappeared. Unappeased, the men called for more beer. Their officers, frugal, meticulous, refused to sanction further beerbibbing...
...instant many a steaming Dutch face grew morose. Then a private, thirsty, petulant, vexed, picked up a chair, hurled it through a window of the beer canteen. Defiant, the men" seized many a bottle, grew pot-valiant, daced to chant the "Internationale...