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...dealing steel. Bombs dropped from airplanes whinnied as they tore down to earth where they burst with staggering force. Grenades rasped their ugly barks and poked the earth with their deadly stings. Rifles snapped and bullets spat death. Men lived and men died. The Moroccan War (TIME, May 11 et seq.) entered its most serious phase...
...announcement of a civil war in Szechwan, largest Chinese Province, which is situate at the extreme west of the Tibetan border, nothing of a positive nature occurred in China or about China or out of it. The crisis, which has been for some weeks in existence (TIME, June 15 et seq.) was still present, but was rapidly taking on a traditional Chinese aspect and becoming stolid, static...
...Meantime Lieut. Commander Richard E. Byrd, in charge of the Naval Air Unit assigned as coöperators to MacMillan's expedition to chart unknown polar regions for Science and the National Geographic Society (TIME, June 22 et seq.), reported his plans in detail to Washington...
Entering Brazil, the explorers had been delayed by civil war (TIME, July 14 et seq., LATIN AMERICA) and occupied their time establishing schools for the natives on the Rios Branco and Negro. Threading up the Rio Parima, Lieutenant Walter Hinton, trans-Atlantic flier and air-scout for Dr. Rice, had sought trails from the Parima valley into the Orinoco country. He found none, but located a tribe of furtive, stunted "white" Indians, the Shiritanas, who exhibited neither fear nor curiosity at sight of the white men and their aircraft. The Shiritanas favored cocaine as a relish for their diet...
...shower baths, Singer Sigmund Spaeth 'and the Weber-and-Fields of the publishing-business present the first collection ever wilfully made of those maundering melodies Mandy Lee, Sivect Adeline, I've Been Working on the Railroad, Some Folks Say That a Nigger Won't Steal, et al. There is a foreword by Ring Lardner, alleged basso. There is whimsical but practical explanation of the broad technique essential to impromptu cantatas-"swipes," "seventh heaven," "amen corner," Russian depths and breath control. Most important are the actual scores of a dozen much-mangled tunes and the standard words, disputes...