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Peace talk today is largely confined to League of Nations prize essay contests and women's club lectures. Yet it is hard for Americans to believe that all Europe is arming "for the war that is coming." However, there is every reason to believe that an element of truth lurks behind the alarming reports of returning tourists who predict war within the year...
...operation of the States is an essential element in the enforcement of the 18th Amendment...
...thestre I may reach three thousand people a day, but my radio audiences are up in the millions I give them simply music of a kind that many people like. My popularity has not diminished the fame of Whiteman and the others, for I have only brought out another element in a direct appeal to the heart...
...conservative element taking the air and cocktails on the verandas overlooking the beach looked down upon these profiles in the nude. They too had read Rousseau, so they turned their back to nature. Worse, they called in the police, who, dulled to aesthetic beauty, told the younger generation to swim three miles away, out of sight of the naked eye and where the eye could not sight them naked. Then these limbs of the law returned to their baccarat game...
...days later, while the younger generation were enjoying the sea three miles out, the conservative element again called the police. Again morals had been offended. The moral, staid, conventional element could still see the bathers--with spyglasses...