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...Guillotined at Dawn." Connoisseurs of oratory agreed that not since the death of 'cello-voiced Aristide Briand has Europe heard a speech so eloquent and witty, so persuasive and pathetic as Edouard Herriot loosed upon the French Chamber between 2:30 a. m. and the hour when he jestingly said, "My Government was guillotined at dawn...
...this car." House and Senate obligingly approved the Postmaster General's purchase of a topper-fitting automobile. In New York, Wilfred John Funk, light-versifying president of Funk & Wagnalls Co. (publishing, Literary Digest), announced his list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language-dawn, hush, lullaby, murmuring, tranquil, mist, luminous, chimes, golden, melody. Said he: "Beauty of sound is not enough. Mush is a word pleasant to the ear, but its connotation is ugly. Beauty of meaning is not sufficient. Mother is one of our most loved words, but it lacks euphony." Meeting in Manhattan...
Most of the young men of Oxford and Cambridge continue to be supremely indifferent whether the young ladies of Somerville and Girton are locked in at 6 p. m. or roam the town until dawn...
...Schlafwagen (sleeper) bound for Berlin. In the dead of night he exchanged telegrams with two most militant Fascists, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Party chieftain in Berlin, and mighty-midriffed Hermann Göring, Speaker of the Reichstag, who induced him to leave his train at dawn, meet them in Weimar. Apparently they told Leader Hitler, somewhat of a waverer despite his bombast, that the Fascist Party must stick by its announced resolve to fight any Cabinet not headed by Hitler. Soon Fascist headquarters officially announced "our Party declines any sort of toleration of the Schleicher Cabinet." The Socialist Party also...
...Dawn brought the lemon light of disillusion. But the Vagabond sighed and slept...