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After that it was all over but the voting and the buttons. After voting every German had an opportunity to buy for five pfennigs (2?) a button stamped "Ja, 1933!" Few failed to buy. Scowling Nazi strong-arm men warned, "to vote Nein and wear a Ja button is to wear...
...body. . . . He had his mother's sound sense, her natural goodness towards others, her smile." But he was a great gossip. He set a hot pace for future Princes of Wales by becoming his time's sartorial authority ("his absentmindedness started the fashion of leaving the bottom button of the waistcoat undone; another time it made trousers turn up at the foot") and an almost professional student of insignia and decorations. Tactful, when as King he took the Oath before the House of Lords he so mumbled the passages denouncing the Roman Catholic faith that no one could...
...author of The Garden. JUNIPERO SERRA - Agnes Repplier- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Essayist Repplier writes the life of one of California's friar-pioneers. THE SIXTH NEW YORKER ALBUM- Harper ($2.50). Gleanings for the curious from the Manhattan smartchart. RIDDLES OF THE GOBI DESERT-Sven Hedin-Button ($5). More of the same oy the author of Across the Gobi Desert. THE ROOSEVELT REVOLUTION, First Phase - Ernest K. Lindley - Viking ($2.50). A Washington correspondent analyzes the New Deal. THE GREAT OFFENSIVE-Maurice Hin-dus-Smith & Haas ($3). More about New Russia by the author of Humanity Uprooted and Red Bread. INSIDE...
...arrived at the door just as the alarm went off-and they saw the police rushing about. But they were treated with nothing but courtesy themselves and no "screeching" of "assassins" was heard by them. Someone had punched the alarm bell by mistake thinking it was an electric light button-and of course the police on guard were at once excited and rushed about some. But your account of it all is absurd...
...HEAD-Margaret Fishback -Button ($2). More light verse by the lightly versatile authoress of I Feel Better...