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Tuesday, February 2, evening: Debussy's "Pelleas et Melisande...
...renger's optimistic, slightly "golden rule" philosophy of life was made known when he undertook to edit L'Art et la Vie, and later in a novel L'Effort. Mere "Effort" however did not suffice him long. His increasingly militant "golden rulism" found expression in the polemic daily, L'Action. That he holds no brief for mere crude babbitt attainment is clear to anyone who has read his L'Aristocratic Intellectuelle: "So long as a people do not grant to intellectual aristocracy its proper place, so long must their social system remain suspect...
...moments later the voice of Il Duce Benito boomed from the Capitol as he inducted Senator Cremonesi as the first Governor of Rome under the new Fascist law replacing popularly elected mayors throughout Italy with podestas (governors) appointed by the Central Government (TIME, Oct. 19 et...
...sense that for hours each day he did not go anywhere else. He exhibited his flamboyance in a daring campaign to spellbind the Deputies by his personal magnetism into a belief that the only workable majority which can be formed in the Chamber bears the trademark Aristide Briand et Cie. Stirring interludes ensued...
...Edmond Hoyle (1672-1769) first systematized the laws of whist, and it became a byword: "according to Hoyle." His treatises also include rules for quadrille, piquet, quinze, vingt-et-un, casino, put, all fours, Pope Joan, thirty-one, brag, commerce, Earl of Coventry, lansquenet, ecarte, cribbage, five & ten, faro rouge et noir, matrimony, cuchre, poker or bluff, reversi, connexions, speculation, snip snap snore 'em, Boston, catch the ten, lift smoke, lotto, chess, backgammon, draughts, hazard, dominoes, cricket, billiards, tennis, golf, horse racing, cocking, twenty deck, poker, archery...