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Leonora Canwick enlists in the A. E. F. and get quite a bit older while she is trying to keep from the inquisitive people she meets the fact of her sex. The subject admits of any number of subtleties most of which are driven home with that quiet nicety of steam riveters working opposite your window early in the morning...
Smorbroed-the famed Scandinavian hors d'oeuvre-consists of pieces of buttered bread, on which are laid a bit of fish, a piece of cheese, a slice of egg, or almost any handy edibles, either separately or in combination...
Editor Blumenfeld elaborated: "This deadly [U.S.] 'gin' has ruined more homes, wrecked more young lives and showered more misery on a great and generously minded country than years of straightforward drunkenness on pure spirits ever witnessed during the generations before prohibition bit itself into the nation's vitals...
...came out again and went south through the Argentine to Asuncion and into Paraguay across the eastern boundary, the Paraguay River. When we got there we told them how there were a lot of Bolivians sitting in forts in the middle of Paraguay, and that vexed them a bit. It was the first they'd heard of it, I guess...
...horns came back with him to the U. S. to make their debuts with the Philharmonic. ... On he goes, swinging his cane, past a cafe door where trombones are moaning measures of La Maxixe. On he goes, past a cathedral, or perhaps the Grand Palais, slackens his pace a bit, then passes by on the other side. On he goes over the bridge to the Left Bank and there he stops again, this time for an Anise de Lozo and following effects are appropriately blurred. A solo violin suggestive of charming broken English is first to clear away the haze...