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...might have included chewing gum, bobbed hair and movie shows. But there is another newsworthy restriction, one which we, in this locality, associate with Zion City even more closely than the blatant overseer himself. Many people carry the association in their minds because they have paid dearly for a bit of experience. Let unknowing motorists beware of the speed trap which is one of Zion's most productive institutions...
...Moon, the other attraction, begins as a bit of lusty Russian sex drama, with what might be called some very frank border ditties and conversation. But it dwindles off into a good old American musical comedy. Grace Moore and Lawrence Tibbett are the musicians and the direction is truly comical...
With the new Austro-German tariff pact so much to the forefront in the news of the world the Vagabond feels that he would do well to polish up a bit on the historical background of the present controversy. He can see in the unseemly haste which France has displayed in protesting the new agreement a recurrence of that dread of German power which she felt so acutely prior to 1914. Perhaps that dread was not unbased. The Vagabond proposes to hear Professor Artz discuss the last years of the heyday of German Imperialism this morning. The place is Harvard...
...however, when we turn to the contests with Yale that the record is a bit marred. Counting the two meetings with the Blue in varsity hockey and polo there were 21 in all. Out of this number the Yale teams were returned the victor no less than 18 times with the Crimson coming out ahead on only three occasions. These were in varsity squash and wrestling and in second team hockey. Besides winning twice in both varsity hockey and polo the varsity and Freshman Yale teams won also in basketball, swimming, fencing, and boxing. The Crimson also lost in Freshman...
...Buenos Aires last week was a most creditable performance. Featured was British transport apparatus of all sorts: cars, motorboats, planes, railway equipment. English jam, rolls, chocolate, pickles and crackers were also prominent. Wondering South Americans strolled through a "mimic London," admired the Tower, London Bridge, and something called "A Bit of Piccadilly...