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Short Speech. Airplanes whirred, guns vomited, church bells swayed, and thousands of Romans loosed a mighty cheer as Mussolini's luxurious salon car squealed to a stop in Rome. II Duce, still in high spirits, consented briefly to address the throng. Standing up in his car, he cried: "Fascisti! Now is the time for acting, not talking...
...After this utterance, Editor Mencken presented Harvard University with the Flag of Maryland (he is a native of Baltimore) and the students and professors, rising to their feet, tendered him the Harvard cheer, three times three. Commented the New York Tribune...
...these possibilities so serious that he cabled Ambassador Herrick to report upon the situation. Two days later, however, the French Senate, while it rushed though the new taxes 232 to 12, voted to postpone application of the sugar and oil monopolies. In Wall Street there ensued a modicum of cheer. At Paris, Premier Briand described the Senate's action rather theatrically as "a torpedo directed against my Cabinet." He referred of course, to the possibility that the Radicals and Socialists may open up the same sort of "bitter enders'" fight over the monopolies that they have been staging for months...
...audience kept its eyes upon d'Annunzio and off the stage. Mindful of the warnings of their priests, they listened to the Debussy score as little as possible and almost completely ignored the singers, among whom was Madame Ida Rubinstein of Paris. Only when an opportunity to cheer d'Annunzio occurred, did the audience seem in the least at ease. It rose time and again to acclaim...
...sport enough to be a good loser when necessary. But now that there has been added to this a financial question, he may feel that his sporting chance has been supplanted by a plutocratic rule. His loyalty will not waver, but he may feel hurt that his chance to cheer for, fight for, and support his team has been put on a money premium, and that his fair alma mater has taken to playing favorites. This is especially true of the younger alumni to whom the dollar seems more than a curiously designed symbol. And unfortunately so, for theirs...