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...discouraged stockholders last week. It has been a poor season. Deauville, Le Touquet, Aix, Biarritz, Vichy and Cannes all reported losses averaging from 25% to 66% of their 1931 income. There was only one bright spot. Fifty years ago when nearby Deauville contained nothing but shrimp fishermen and Norman cider makers, Trouville was a fashionable resort. This year there were in Trouville enough holiday makers who could no longer afford Deauville prices to jack its casino profits from...
...night meeting for the House members to listen in on returns, Lowell, Kirkland, Eliot, and Adams have also arranged to have radios in the common room and will serve refreshments. In the Union the radio in the upstairs room will be kept going but there will be no free cider or smokes...
Election night smokers are scheduled to be held at three Houses: Leverett, Kirkland, and Lowell, from eight o'clock in the evening until the final returns have been received over the radio. It is understood that doughnuts and cider will be served at Lowell House under the direction of B.S. Wood 33, chairman of the House Committee. The CRIMSON is now undertaking to conduct similar smokers in the other four Houses, but has as yet been unable to secure the cooperation of the respective House Committees...
...there is, too, in New Hampshire a wine of the country that used to be made from Russets, but now is ground from Baldwins. Boys at college distil it and call it applejack, but the farmers of New Hampshire keep it in a 50-gallon keg and call it cider. It does not burn like Rhum, it does not bite like Gin, it does not scrape like Scotch. It softens the rough edges, it burnishes the afterglow, and it catches a wind tossed echo of the music of the spheres. And above all it flows from a pitcher the mate...
...humor. She calls attention to a Kentucky case in which "a separation due to the wife's refusal to cohabit at all with her spouse is metaphorically described as 'an unfortunate failure to guide the marital craft into the port of happiness.' " If you like cider you may be pleased to learn that habitual use of it, not amounting to habitual drunkenness, is not grounds for divorce in New Hampshire...